Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because State laws were weak or unenforced. Mrs. Kelley was one of the first to demand Federal legislation against child exploitation. Self-interest rather than high ideals caused organized labor to swing to her support, for every child put out of a job meant a new job for a grownup. Mrs. Kelley and the National Child Labor Committee lobbied and lobbied at Washington, finally in 1906 won a $50.000 appropriation for an investigation. It showed conditions just as bad as Mrs. Kelley expected. In 1912 the Federal Children's Bureau was created but it had no power...
...Frau Goebbels is distantly descended from a Jewish family named Friedlander, "The Doctor" produced no evidence but flew into a towering, effective rage. "Let whosoever desires to do so look upon my wife!" he challenged. "Let them convince themselves with their own eyes of her non-Jewish origin!" "WE DEMAND!" Unable, like the Roosevelt regime, to show an upturn in national business, the Hitler Government continued to ride last week the great wave of its successful propaganda, continued to rely more and more heavily on spry little, clubfooted. Dr. Goebbels. Nazi fanatics for a "pure race" contend, in the case...
...appraise the New Deal fairly & squarely was no easy matter. Members of the Administration, in great demand as graduation speakers, were biased. Most tycoons were almost as puzzled about its meaning as their young audience. The group best qualified to speak with some authority was composed of oldtime Democratic liberals detached from the Washington scene. Outstanding among those with a worthwhile opinion last week was Owen D. Young...
Brightest spot in the steel picture is motor-making Detroit. Thence has come the bulk of the demand that more than tripled steel operations in the last three months.† Makers of automobile steel like National Steel (only major unit to pay dividends throughout the Depression) have come nearest to feasting. In the Detroit district steel operations have surged up to nearly 80% of capacity...
...Century of Progress means business for any one in Chicago it means business for hotelmen. Since the Fair opened last month demand for rooms has jumped 30% to 40%. Most of the pick up has been due to conventions, of which Chicago expects 1,000 before the Fair is over.* Bona fide Fairgoers have not turned up in large numbers as yet and hotels have been unable even to guess at what volume of business will develop through the summer. Rates in higher-priced hotels are generally down 25% to 35% from last year (and 1929). Low-priced hotels have...