Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lately rejected prepayment by a vote of 60-to-28. In the House only 26 members out of the necessary 145 could be found to sign a petition to call up such a measure. President Roosevelt's broad relief program detracted from popular support of a special class demand...
...their banks and got 100? on the dollar-in currency. Those who asked for gold were told they could not have it. The only foreign debtors who last week made a gesture of maintaining gold payments in New York were the French municipalities of Lyons, Bordeaux and Marseilles; on demand they gave $35 in U. S. currency for their $30 gold dollar bond coupons. Fifty-three Italian corporations
...without property or income, the court was free to suspend its contempt orders, let him go. By his power to modify alimony payments, a judge likewise could keep divorce debts from piling up on an imprisoned husband. No longer could irate wives, as a matter of legal right, demand the permanent jailing of their men. In New Jersey last week Governor Moore signed a bill whereby a divorcée who remarries loses her alimony from her first husband...
...very practical fact that Cuba is potentially one of the greatest customers of the American continent for United States goods and that she herself depends upon fair and generous treatment from the United States for her economic life, all combine to demand today, more than ever before, that the two nations join as equal, sovereign and independent partners in the consideration of those measures best adapted to further the economic and commercial interests of each one of them and of the world at large...
...California around 500,000 bbl. and a scattering of other States 400,000 bbl., less than 1,000,000 bbl. a day was left for Texas with its nine fields, of which one. East Texas, was easily able to turn out the whole quota. To make supply balance demand East Texas had to be scaled down to around 400,000 bbl.-40 bbl. for each of its 10,000 wells...