Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into the White House stormed Louisiana's rambunctious Senator Huey Long to "demand" his "rights" in the matter of political patronage. Thirty minutes later he emerged calm and chastened. "The President and I," said he, "are never going to fall out. I'll be satisfied whichever way matters...
...released unhurt on a street corner in The Bronx after his uncles had paid $40,000 ransom. The kid nappers, apparently unnerved by news of the death sentence of Walter McGee and by the nation-wide anti-crime movement, had speeded up negotiations at the eleventh hour, abandoning their demand for $75,000 when Daniel O'Connell insisted that $40,000 was all they would get. Aware that the money was marked, the extortionists threatened to kill young O'Connell and "dump him on the doorstep" unless they were given opportunity to exchange it at a New York...
...huge distillery at Peoria. Construction will begin in January with an initial investment of $1,000,000. The distillery will consume 20,000 bushels of grain per day, will have a daily output of 100,000 gallons of bourbon and rye whiskey. ¶ The price of medicinal whiskey, demand for which has increased enormously since relaxation of Federal regulations (TIME, May 22), was upped $5 a case. Such news as this last week sent speculators into a frenzy, sent "whiskey" stocks ballooning. Around & around boardrooms ran the story of how you could have made 2700% on your money...
...Into court last week marched elderly President Edward J. Jamison of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. and demanded back the big company which the New York State Superintendent of Insurance took away from him last March. At that time securities which cost the company $73,800,000 were worth $19,900,000. Since then, said President Jamison last week, the stockmarket had been good to him. Globe & Rutgers' assets now exceeded liabilities by $10,000,000. The court pondered his plea. Wall Street wondered if Globe & Rutgers' rise did not bear out one of its pet theories...
...this "column' in last week's CRIMSON will perhaps remember that rather sweeping statement in the last sentence; that almost evry important item in the early history of Harvard College, and in a lesser sense today, has arisen out of grave problems of food supply and demand. This was of course a rash and heartless statement, based on a newspaper man's false notion that the world moves on sentiment and sensation. But before the writer pleads guilty of ignoring the "great underlying forces which have molded Harvard's glorious history" he would like to point out that, of Harvard...