Word: demanding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tact: "The plentiful supply of cheap grape brandy makes it possible for Australia to send to England ever increasingly large quantities of fortified wines [i. e. dosed with brandy], wines which being rich in natural grape sweetness and of a high alcoholic strength are more and more in demand among the working classes...
Nanking troop trains continued to rush soldiers down to the Fukien front, but Generalissimo Chiang did not follow them. He developed a fresh interest in his anti-Communist campaign in Kiangsi. Meanwhile the Fukien rebels continued to demand that both Generalissimo Chiang and Nanking Premier Wang Ching-wei resign. Wang and Chiang reacted in a way which showed that Fukien and its famed 19th Route Army are gaining prestige. Said the Premier: "It is impossible for the Government to dispense with Generalissimo Chiang's services at the present juncture of the anti-Communist campaign, but if the people...
...With no uncertain force consumer buying was manifest immediately following Thanksgiving, and to the breadth of the Christmas demand was added the acceleration incident to the opening of an entirely new field of merchandise revenue [liquor]. . . . Reports are nearly uniform in placing the season's volume at the best level in two years."-Dun & Bradstreet...
Indications that the NRA in now beginning to face the realities of making a capitalist system work are given by the fact that labor has been denied its demand for representation on the committees which govern coded industries. As a sop the government may provide for boards of laborers and consumers to "observe." This is typical of the gradual way in which labor must be cased out of the picture, after having been put in with much idealistic fanfare...
...Transcript, being thoroughly convinced of the divine goodness of capitalism, often carries the best account of developments in Washington, for it has no qualms about stating things baldly. Its account reads: "The most vigorous pressure from business convinced officials that to grant it (labor's demand) would wreck the present relationship built up in NRA. Industrialists who made the representations to Hugh S. Johnson came away satisfied." Amazing how "convincing" "vigorous pressure" can be, and so "satisfactory...