Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prices. As everyone knows, prices go up when demand far outruns supply. And as everyone knows, there was never any possibility that U. S. demand could be immediately supplied except by unrestricted importation from abroad. But already National Distillers Products Corp. has begun to label its wares with the prices which public should pay retailer. And last week President Harold Jacobi of Schenley cheerfully announced...
Each New Year's Day, on advice of the Emperor's various Premiers, His Majesty rewards subjects of their choosing with peerages, baronetcies, knighthoods, stars, assorted ribbons. Wherever these are in brisk demand the Crown is safe enough. In 1919 Canada swung under the influence of her sturdy farmers and Liberals who scarcely love a lord. Their leader and longtime Premier, coarse & hearty Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie King, has taken the line that it is un-Canadian to lick the Royal hand for honors. Not until 1930 did Canada's pendulum swing back. When Mr. King...
...rigid economy is so necessary, it seems that a less vital organ of the University might have been curtailed: the appropriations perhaps, for those less essential appendages, the military and naval science departments. The present status of the University treasury does not seem to demand the saving of a few thousand dollars for the hampering of the primary educational tool at any time and least of all during the reading period...
...present time, there is a splendid opportunity in the Russian service. We have only 32 men in the whole service who speak the Russian language, and they are in great demand. In the next two or three years, there will be opportunities for one or two hundred trained men in this branch of the consular department...
...Wallace, in complaining that America has not a youth movement, suggests that the New Deal should induce one. The colleges can only reply that youth movements do not thrive on a leadership multiple as well as diverse, that they demand more than good intentions as the price of their allegiance. They have already replied to the New Doal's bid for support by asking the New Deal which of the things that are burgeoning in Washington they are being asked to support. Many of them will give that support to an administration willing to face the implications of government control...