Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week "Lizzie" McDuffy, black White House maid, was faced by a demand from the presidential grandchildren. Said "Sistie" Dall, "Duffy, why can't something be done so that I may be called Eleanor?" Cried her young brother "Buzzie": "I want to be called Curtis...
...Above the Courier-Journal's letter column runs this legend : "The writer's name and address must be signed, not to be published without consent." Editor Armentrout, a seasoned newspaperman who used to manage the paper's capital bureau, instantly saw that the Legislature's demand constituted a challenge to the protection which the Courier-Journal, like most papers, gives its letter-writing readers. When he refused its request, the committee promptly summoned Editor Armentrout to Frankfort...
...Electric power output was 16.5% above 1933-largest weekly gain since the rise began last May. The total of 1,658-040,000 k.w.h. was second highest since the New Deal and equal to 1931. Steel operations continued to expand with new rail orders supplementing the heavy demand from can-makers and the automobile industry. Iron Age estimated operations at 49% of capacity-highest since last August. Production of 4,200,000 tons in the first two months of the year was precisely 100% above the figure for the same period of 1933. Steel scrap prices, which generally forecast...
...editorial then proceeds to demand very justifiably that the results of the questionnaire be placed "in reliable and trained hands" and that assurance be given of the responsibility of those sponsoring the whole affair...
...Dean's office will demand that assurances be given on these matters. In accordance with official custom in such an affair it may go even farther and put a stop to the whole thing. The former would be an obvious duty; the latter would be a grave mistake. For, let there be no misunderstanding, any sincere and scientific investigation of this kind merits support as a courageous effort to supply data on an important subject which has been needlessly and unintelligently obscured. All that any sensible man can ask is that there be certain definite evidence of responsibility. It would...