Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget has already been opened once by special legislative act at your request with disastrous results. This was followed in the last weeks of office of the preceding administration by a scandalous indifference to public needs. ... To say the American institutions demand a continuance of this dreary and futile process comes as a shock and a disillusionment to the people of this city. . . . "You talk about dictatorship. None has been proposed. I am asking sound city management. Prudent businessmen . . . recognize it as business management. Politicians call it dictatorship. . . . We cannot effect economies with platitudes, nor can we balance our budget...
...revealing deficits which could not fail to stagger the public he bettered his bargaining power with Congress. Congress was set to demand large expenditures. Now at least a part of the public will press Congress to keep expenditures down...
...John quickly crystallized around the issue of Disarmament. In Berlin the French Ambassador, bristling M. André François-Poncet who has personal connections with the French munitions firm of Schneider & Cie., had just delivered to Chancellor Hitler a stiff note, reputedly rejecting Germany's demand that she be permitted to triple her present army of 100,000 men. With France and Germany thus deadlocked, Sir John persuasively urged upon II Duce that the present is no time to take the League of Nations apart and see if it can be put together in a way to make...
Promptly the Commission ordered hearings to determine whether adverse decisions might not affect the bonds' value. If the Commission revokes the registration, bondholders may demand their investment's return, may sue Laclede directors for damages...
...competition may at one time or another refuse to work. For example, under the operation of competition excessive producing capacity has not withdrawn from the field and left the market to the more efficient producers. On the contrary, excess capacity is still to be seen everywhere, and diminished demand is merely reflected in a general reduction of operation among producers. Inefficient producers have not ceased to operate, and in many cases the inefficient producer, by violating decent employment standards and under-paying his labor as well as working them too long, is able to employ greater producing capacity than...