Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...postmaster of Chicago, who was uprooted from a useful career in the same bland and cavalier fashion, if not to the honor, at least to the glory, of the Democratic party. There is in further background the Portland postmaster of happy memory, whose protest against Lord Woodrow and demand for back salary piqued the Supreme Court into its historic rumble that the power to appoint connotes the power to remove, though a hundred Pendletons block the path...
...national convention in Chicago this year, the American Legion found itself hemmed between two sharp issues. In his speech at the opening session, President Roosevelt voiced the undoubted sentiment of the country when he firmly discouraged recrudescence of the Legion's twice-rebuked demand for immediate cashing of the Bonus (TIME, Oct. 9). Wisest heads in the Legion-potent (758,000 members) but not so potent as it was in 1931 (1,054,000 members)-realized the danger as well as the futility of pressing the Bonus movement now. Not only would it revive the hostility that the Legion...
Though applause crashed out from all parts of the Dail, General Mulcahy still smoldered with Irish ire. "I demand an official investigation!" shouted he, but Speaker Frank Fahy quashed further discussion...
...below the retail price fixed by the manufacturer. Thus if E. R. Squibb & Sons stamped $1 on a bottle of mouthwash, no one could sell it below 79?. Most big department stores sell branded drugs and cosmetics, many of them as "loss-leaders." Because of the heavy, steady demand, they are willing to sell them at little or no profit or even a loss simply to bring people into their stores. Under their own code the department stores could not sell them for less than cost plus 10%, but that in most cases would establish prices below those permitted...
...demand for a college parking place is concerned, no action will be taken until after the weekend. At present, authorities are examining the arguments in favor of such a project, and hope to reach a satisfactory decision. Monday Arthur L. Endicott, comptroller of the University, will issue a definite statement...