Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PROTEST EXPULSION OF I. P. FLORY FOR ACTION AGAINST JIM CROWISM WHEN FISK STUDENTS WERE INVOLVED BY THE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION IN SINGING ENGAGEMENT AT LOEW JIM CROW THEATER NASHVILLE STOP WE DEMAND YOUR SUPPORT IN FIGHT FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY HIS IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL REINSTATEMENT...
...than it has. After all!" Mr. Doriot exclaimed, "long bombing and observation fights should have been of sufficient training to the flyers to allow them to transport the mail successfully, and even bad weather is no excuse for the many mishaps which have occurred, for a war would certainly demand flying in bad weather...
...however, even they were finally mastered. And yesterday the acme of perfection was reached when one Leonard P. Eliel '36 from J entry succeeded in consuming his soup by means of a spoon braced between his two chop-sticks. This feat excited envy throughout the dining hall, and the demand for chop-sticks became acute. A committee approached Mrs. Smith, the headwaitress, and guaranteed to donate the necessary funds, if chopsticks might be supplied in place of silver for all who wished them. Mrs. Smith referred the committee to Housemaster Greenough, who after investigating the cost and utility of chopsticks...
...tariff dealings, were not swayed by the President's persuasion. Immediately they raised a chorus of condemnation, seized the bill as a partisan issue. Senator McNary cried out that it was another Article X of the League of Nations. House Leader Snell called it "the most outrageous demand for authority ever voiced by any Executive in the history of this country." Even Senator Borah found himself shoulder to shoulder with Old Guardsmen when he declared that the bill was a demand that the Senate give up its treaty-making powers...
...leaving policies to his financial betters. Meantime an army of auditors swarmed over the Citroën ledgers. In Le Soir a realistic financial observer remarked: "It is impossible now to get any exact idea of the company's condition. ... In prosperous days, accounts meant little because increased demand and prices covered everything...