Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national policies, and to evaluate critically the principles of recovery in the light of a changing economic situation. It will attempt to assay the trend of events, and to discuss some of the old economic principals in relation to the new social problems; whether the law of supply and demand is defunct; the extent to which prices increased by edict may result in increased purchasing power and a return to prosperity; and the feasibility of national planning...
...from consumption industries. Thus while the N.R.A.'s attempt to raise purchasing power by wages was valuable, perhaps a more fundamental objective should be to induce a resurgence of investing and hence a great rise in purchasing power. It is this fact which has led to an increasing demand, both inside and outside the banking community, for revision of the act, in order to overcome what is now quite probably the main threat to recovery...
Meantime Dr. Warren was working on his gold theory. Early last spring he and Professor Pearson issued a book, Prices (which, revised and brought up to date, had sold 6,000 copies to last week), to prove his point that, as price-makers, Supply & Demand are not twins but quadruplets; that the price of a commodity is determined by the Supply & Demand for it along with the Supply & Demand for gold. Since to raise prices means to reduce the value of the dollar, Dr. Warren demanded to know whether trying to reduce the value of the dollar and still maintaining...
Berlin's vast Sportpalast rumbled one night last week with a great gathering of the "German Christians," Nazi Wing of the Evangelical Church (TIME. June 12, et seq.). on deck to demand the super-Nazification of the Church. Their presiding officer was brisk, sleek, pomaded young Rev. Joachim Hossenfelder. Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg. Their prime hot-head was one Dr. Reinhold Krause. Meeting a few days after the 450th birthday of their Church's founder, Martin Luther, they proceeded to juggle ecclesiastical dynamite. According to Nazi Pastor Krause, German Protestantism needed a "second Reformation." He submitted three...
...must demand a return to the heroic conception of Jesus," clarioned Dr. Krause, "not as a God enthroned to be conceived dogmatically, but as a fearless fighter and leader."* The meeting enthusiastically adopted a resolution supporting Dr. Krause's reforms...