Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reinhold Krause, a Berlin pastor associated with the extreme wing of the Nazi movement, has called down a summary rebuke from the Reichsbishop by a very curious salvo on the Old Testament. He uncompromisingly demanded "elimination of the Old Testament as a religious book . . and rejection of all ecclesiastical leaders who do not stand 100 per cent upon the platform of National Socialism." I can only interpret this demand as a suggestion that there is a heady and dangerous impasse between the political theory of the Old Testament and that of the Hitler party. How far is our thunderer justified...
...nation" the chambermen laughed. Mr. Loree, president of Delaware & Hudson R. R., old wise man of the sea of practical economics, took a $100 bill out of his pocket and held it up: "It says on the face of it that it is redeemable in gold on demand at the United States Treasury. Now it is a mere scrap of paper. We have violated that obligation just as flagrantly as Germany violated its treaty with Belgium." James Brown, president of the Chamber and partner of Manhattan's Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., read a telegram from Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer...
...operating under that dominion's Precious Stones Act of 1927 ever let go its artificial limitation of supply, owners of diamonds might be left high & dry. But although Americans are not hoarding precious stones, and cannot hoard the No. 1 precious metal, gold, there has been a large demand for the No. 2 precious metal, silver. Last week the price of silver on the Manhattan Commodities Exchange reached 40⅞?, the highest in three years. Of last year's world production of 160,000,000 oz., 102,000,000 oz. were mined by six U. S. companies (American...
...does appear to be a very sensible measure nevertheless. It is a cause for cheering and gesticulation not only on account of its frank admission of the wholesale collapse of state and private charity and the huge necessity of Federal aid, but also because it means another badly-needed demand on the capital-goods industries which will supply the materials and instruments for the public works. Despite all the efforts of the Administration this sector of business is still deep in the dumps; this particular fillip may not do the trick but at any rate it indicates that Washington...
...National Recovery Act. There is, it seems, a section of the permanent code which allows the president to license certain industries if "destructive wage or price cutting or other activities contrary to the policy of" NIRA should exist in them. Newspapers, sensing here a possible threat to journalistic freedom, demand that this offending fragment be struck out or amended in some way before their individual code is signed...