Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circles; economic, historical, and sociological societies; mountaineering, flying, rifle shooting clubs, social service; the political; musical groups--singing, instrumentals; religious clubs. Practically all these may be joined by anyone who can participate. Moving on to more specialized pursuits which require more time, we have the numerous athletic managerships. These demand much time and drudgery but the winners become part of their respective teams and enjoy the accompanying trips and prestige. Harvard has usually had a capable dramatic club and there are facilities for staging...
...before he lumber code was finished General Johnson got the steel men into a room, kept them there for twelve hours with only a brief intermission for dinner-virtually whipped them into agreement. They came out late at night, glum, shaking their heads grievously. He had beaten down their demand for continuance of open shop.* The code provided a maximum 40-hr. week (extensible to 48 hr. at seasonal peaks); a minimum 40? an hour wage; an eight-hour day effective after Nov. 1 if the industry is operating at 60% or more of capacity; three representatives...
Thus unsuccessfully ended the elaborate attempt of Chicago and Federal police to trap John ("Jake the Barber") Factor's kidnappers who had audaciously demanded a payment of $50,000 in addition to the $50,000 they collected when they released him last month. By tapping the telephone wires in Factor's apartment the officers had learned of the second extortion demand, persuaded the frightened Factor to let them lay an elaborate ambush. All they got for their pains was the hat & coat and the damaged sedan, the license of which was listed under the name...
...Cocofed"), a radical organization not unlike the U.S. Farmer-Labor Party, was preparing to raise hob. Canada's banks had stood unharmed through the Depression, but the West was bitter against them for not lending more money at lower rates. Bank scandals in the U.S. prompted Canadians to demand a similar airing of Canadian banking. Proposals were made for "nationalization of credit" to take the power of making loans away from the banks, turn it over to the Government...
...would be happy if he could take back some of the things he said during the War to End War. Along with many a college professor he gave his services to the Nation, particularly to the Committee on Public Information headed by George Creel. Ministers were the first to demand, as suitable for churches, such material as a lantern-slide lecture on "Ruined Churches in France." Ministers were also glad to give their pulpits to "Four-Minute Men," to preach mimeographed War sermons sent out by Propagandist Creel, and sometimes, like the late Dr. Percy Stickney Grant of Manhattan...