Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large class affair a case can be drawn up. At present, neither the extreme jitterbug nor the small-dance advocate is pleased by the attempt to compromise on a "three-quarters good" orchestra. Were a single Junior prom, similar to the Jubilee, to be held, the ever-recurring demand for a big name would be satisfied; and at the same time there would no longer be any legitimate protest against the simple, "atmospheric," restricted dance. Jitterbugs would have their big time, the girl from Cleveland or Atlanta could be imported, and Harvard would yearly have a taste of the elite...
Difference of opinion there must be. But social affairs must be so arranged as to suit all tastes, and if there is a large body of students chafing at the bit, impatient with House dances of the simpler sort, then the demand must at least be considered. How wide the appeal would be, how serious or how ephemeral the challenge to Harvard traditions, how practicable the affair from a mechanical point of view -- these are questions which the dance committees must decide. "De gustibus non disputandum est," and it may well be that an institution long discussed with a sneer...
...contention of Ray Dumont, president of the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress, that arbiters should demand and get respect from the fans. The best way to do this, Dumont contends, is to eliminate any duties that "lower" them in the eyes of fans...
Last week Labor took a beating from the Army. At the emphatic demand of Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring (and after a talk with Franklin Roosevelt), House & Senate conferees on the Army's pending $366,250,000 rearmament authorization bill dropped an amendment tacked on by Majority Leader Barkley. The Army opposed it and Labor wanted it because it would have kept any national defense contract from being awarded any bidder who refused to bargain with his workers collectively. Although friendly Senators offered to limit its effects to firms actually convicted of violating the Wagner...
...meet the demand for Spring skiing, the Boston and Maine Railroad is sending a Sun-Tan Snow Train up to North Conway, New Hampshire, where good skiing with 30 inches of granular snow has been reported...