Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until the schools adopt truly educational programs, the hue and cry about reduced budgets, etc., is not really important. I say this in spite of the fact that my livelihood depends on those same budgets and I have felt the influence of the most extreme demand for economy...
...apparent assumption that only such limited ''weeding out" had been done. Nothing could be further from the truth. Had this been the extent to which Administration action went on veterans' compensation there never would have been a back-fire in Congress, nor any public demand for restoration of the benefits...
...thing," declared Mayor Richard M. Russell '14, last night before a group of Harvard Square merchants at a meeting held at the Continental Hotel. "Operating costs in Cambridge are 50 per cent greater than in any other city in Massachusetts of the same size and type, and any demand that Harvard pay taxes to help lessen the financial burdens now being carried by the city government might well gain the answer that Cambridge first help itself by lowering its operating expenses...
...year bonds (TIME, April 16). Delighted, he found that all but $208,000,000 had been converted of the $1,005,000,000 called and due. The Treasury's $4,600,000,000 stock of cash on hand could easily handle the relatively small cash demand. Mr. Morgenthau was in fact so delighted at the success of his conversion that he had an appetite for more: after consulting with his experts and attending a Cabinet conference he hastily went back to the Treasury, called in newshawks, went through a ceremony...
...referred to Speculator Cutten's Satevepost articles as "an interesting series . . . vigorously opposing all forms of Government regulation of the exchanges and viewing with alarm the operations of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration." "Mr. Cutten," said the Secretary, "is one of our greatest supporters of the law of supply & demand and laissez faire." Bitter in the conviction that he was being singled out as a prominent "goat" for New Deal publicity purposes, Speculator Cutten would say nothing for publication. His office door, which bears the name "Chicago Perforating Co.,"* was barred to newshawks. The grain trade sympathized, quick to believe...