Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance sale may have been very substantial and the public support generous. The money may have been used to pay other obligations of the local manager. Or, the receipts in a particular instance may have been less than expected. In either case, what legitimate right has anyone to demand that the artist perform without...
...fire hydrants-every trace of last fortnight's bloody riots. The Cabinet did its best to give taxpayers something else to think about. A snarling tariff war with Britain got under way (see p. 13). Foreign Minister Louis Barthou sent a blunt answer to Germany's latest demand for rearmament. He made three points...
...Finally a stockholders' committee acceptable to both Mr. Holmes and the management was appointed to investigate Mr. Holmes's charges. Last week the committee published its report. Though the committee whitewashed no one, it backed up embattled Mr. Holmes more often than not. It endorsed his chief demand-broader stockholder representation, fewer officer-directors-and bluntly told the Lapham family that its holdings entitled it to one director, not three. It urged the company to hire an "executive of outstanding experience and proven ability," recommended that Jack Lapham be ousted as chairman of the executive committee for lack...
Harvard has remained notably aloof from the experimentation with entrance requirements which has been going on among most first-class American colleges. It continues to place heavy reliance on the College Board examinations, and to demand Latin or Greek as a prerequisite for the A.B. degree. This does not mean, however, that Harvard has had any greater success with the old admissions criteria than have other colleges. Recent surveys have revealed a disquieting discrepancy between grades on entrance examinations and subsequent records. No admissions criteria can be wholly successful which allow an opportunity for intensive cramming by schools whose curricula...
...clarify our position, both in this matter and in general. We believe that the Liberal Club contributes valuable discussions of current social problems, and that it affords a possibility of useful action based on the knowledge acquired in the course of these discussions. It would therefore, be unreasonable to demand that those individuals (a minority of our chapter) who are members of both the N.S.L. and the Liberal Club, should refrain from presenting their views to the latter...