Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision "not to apply for an allotment" was taken because it was felt that the appropriations already made by the University "would be sufficient to take care of any demand from those who would fall within the restrictions of the federal government." The College has added to its funds for scholarships and other student aids in several ways, the most important of these being a substantial appropriation for student employment within the College this year. As announced last week, it is planned to continue this program...
...trying than these have made them. It is unfortunate that a satisfactory compromise could not have been struck between the government's desire to restrict its grant to students otherwise unable to remain in college and the University's desire to administer its own undergraduate aid. But Harvard's demand was made on the basis of a highly satisfactory record in meeting its special problems; the demand of the CWA, on the other hand, was largely a failure to recognize that the most general law must have its legitimate exceptions...
...campaign against Long was stated last night to be an endeavor to prefer the serious charges that have already been made against the Louisiana senator. At present the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the Senate has shelved the charges according to the Anti-Long faction and they demand a definite decision as to the Kingfish's status...
...perennial demand for a current events course has been voiced more vehemently this year than at any time within the memory of students now in college. The events of the last year have been so arresting and student interest in politics has grown so rapidly that the bases of this demand are easily understood. But while a current events course is the most obvious way in which a college can satisfy this new undergraduate interest, it would never be adequate in itself to answer a demand which is much more fundamental than a passing fever of interest in the affairs...
...Panhandle. That year (1931) it earned $22,331,000. The next year it formed a joint company with the Rockefellers to develop gas fields in north central Pennsylvania and western New York. But Columbia Gas had bank loans of $43,500,000, mostly the result of its expansion. The demand for natural gas had already fallen off when Columbia's President Philip Green Gossler set out to pay his debts...