Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Promises, threats and a storm of rage from President Machado produced no result. The officers stood sullen until finally Lieut.-Colonel Julio Sanguilly, Chief of Aviation at Camp Columbia, spoke: "With all respect, General Machado, you must resign before noon tomorrow!" Other officers plucked up courage, made the same demand...
...appealing for U. S. troops to maintain peace. To prevent a recurrence of the Pennsylvania coal troubles elsewhere NRA appealed to the country for a moratorium on strikes and lockouts. Approving this, too, the President declared it was "on a par with Samuel Gompers' memorable War-time demand to preserve the status quo." Appointed by him to adjust NRA labor troubles was one more board chairmanned by New York's Senator Wagner. Labor's Windfall. Despite the President's declarations, the all-important issue of unionization behind the coal strike and many a lesser strike...
...back into the business-$70,000,000 of them had gone back in by 1917. The market value of its stock, largely Mellon owned, was $150,000,000. Just at the beginning of the War Mellon also bought Kopper Co. which turned into a gold mine with the war demand for coal tar products for explosives. Millions added to millions-the best part of the $2,000,000,000 fortune of the Mellons had already been assembled. In 1921 Pennsylvania's politicians pressed Mr. Harding to name "America's second richest man" Secretary of the Treasury...
...staff, devoting most of his time to Pennsylvania Railroad and Chrysler, but he became a private relations counsel between his temperamental chief and the rest of the staff. When Mr. Lee would abruptly summon his staff to meet him in his uptown suite in the old Waldorf, demand to know why a certain letter had not been sent out as directed, then brokenly announce: "I'm through. I simply can't go on. You fellows divide up the accounts!" -it was Tommy Ross who quietly herded the office force back to work...
...office than that of Greta Garbo, Janet Gaynor, Jean Harlow or Mickey Mouse. Her last four pictures have earned an average of $800,000 each-far more than any other star's. She gets a salary of $4,000 a week because she is too good-natured to demand more. In 1931 she won the Cinema Academy's prize for the best acting of the year in Min & Bill. Last year she nearly won it again, for Emma...