Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doubleday, Doran & Co. will publish the article in booklet form for $1. Big demand will lower the price...
Excited crowds at the trial of the four antiFascists last week heard the prosecutor demand the same penalty, insisting that one of the real instigators of the plot was the anti-Fascist exile Professor Gaetano Salvemini of Harvard. (From his Cambridge sanctuary Professor Salvemini promptly denied complicity.) But black-shirted judges no longer fear for their regime. Conspirator Capasso was acquitted. Claudio Cianca was let off with 18 years in jail. The other two got 30 years. Great tears of thankfulness rolled down their cheeks as the three prisoners were led from their iron cage to begin sentence...
...past two days the self-appointed editors of the new Harvard Herald have been dickering with President Conant over the purchase of Memorial Hall, which they intend to use for the home of their new enterprise. Since the editors believed that the highest price the President could possibly demand for the Hall would not be in excess of fifteen dollars, they were at a loss to know what to do with the remaining five hundred thousand masumas which have been pledged by the "wealthy Boston sources...
...principle of taxation which, if adopted, would demoralize the laws of supply and demand and tend to break down the NRA, as well as the AAA, is under consideration by the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee...
...government from these excise taxes would be imperiled, to say nothing of the danger to the AAA if the processing taxes now levied on various products fell down in volume because of the government's own interference with the competitive forces and the laws of supply and demand in business and agriculture. It is inconceivable that Congress will approve a tax device which, under the guise of increasing revenue, really is an effort to penalize the farmer and to break down competing American companies which are large employers of labor and large purchasers of raw materials