Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...works. Mentally Mr. Douglas, who believes in a "pay-as-you-go" policy, clucked his tongue, aware that if further emergency expenditures are undertaken, the only alternative to the Government's going further into the red is sharply increased taxation. Even though he might choose to ignore the demand of bright young Senator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin for a ten-billion dollar public works outlay, the President faced countless demands for government money. In deciding what budget position to take between the Douglas and LaFollette extremes, President Roosevelt would make his most important decision for the next step...
...bought her ticket to the show, as most of us did; she had a swell and exciting and deeply moving time while the show lasted. Should she now demand her money back? Should any of us demand our money back...
...been the cockiest and brainiest of the Roosevelt brain trust. He accepted, last week, the office of City Chamberlain on condition that the office eventually be abolished and that its salary meanwhile be curtailed. Mr. Berle has a teaching job at Columbia, a private law practice, is in demand as an author of newspaper articles and must be available for duty at the White House as well as at City Hall...
...Lords - ¶Reversed a previous chancery Court decision and held that British holders of "gold clause" bonds of the Societe Intercommunale Beige d'Electricite are entitled to demand and receive interest and capital payments in gold at the par value of the pound.* "The original intention of the contract was to prevent the loss from falling upon the bondholder should sterling become depreciated," argued counsel for the bondholders, and this view the Lords upheld. Because the U. S. Supreme Court gives great weight to pertinent decisions at the fountainhead of Anglo-Saxon law, holders of U. S. gold clause...
...movement in the 2nd Federal Reserve District under Standard Oil's Teagle. Last June he was summoned to Washington to act as go-between between the tycoons of the Industrial Advisory Board and the hard-boiled theorists of NRA. There he worked at his usual swift pace and demanded the same of his subordinates. One minute he would put in a long distance telephone call and the next grab up the receiver to demand "How about it?" Then he would go striding off down a corridor, pop into someone's office to ask a question, pop out again...