Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard Louisiana's Long demand the resignation of Secretary of the Treasury Woodin because in 1929 he shared in a stock cut-in deal with the House of Morgan...
...testimony which originally helped convict the 50-year-old onetime labor agitator. But it takes two sides to make even a court fight. The District Attorney, a Mooney protagonist, refused to bring charges. His assistant told Judge Louis H. Ward he had no case. Up rose Agitator Mooney to demand his constitutional right to defend himself, to put evidence of his innocence before the jury...
...bill or the other: 1) Federal Reserve banks are to withhold credit from member banks which use it for stockmarket speculation; 2) savings and Morris Plan banks are to be admitted to the Reserve system; 3) national bank directorates are to be limited to 25; 4) interest on demand deposits is to cease; 5) officers may not borrow from their own banks...
Here was France, in other words, with its old demand for security before disarmament, the security to be an international police force to back the League's decisions. Other nations have always jumped so quickly on the idea that a definite organization for such a force has never been presented. Most accepted version is that a certain proportion of each army be internationalized under League officers, kept in its own country ready to be sent wherever needed...
...suddenly attacked last week not only by the sharp-tongued Labor Peer but by a solid phalanx of Tory diehards. The Tories had three complaints: agitation against the Government's lukewarm policy in India, failure to take a half-promised sixpence off the income tax, and a demand for the removal of the heavy land tax imposed in 1931 by Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Though passed, the land tax has never been enforced. Observers thought that the National Government could ride this latest crisis by promising abolition of the land...