Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ones are a liability, and since there are more applications than rooms, they are needed. The disposal of these rooms in the upper brackets is not easy; "doubling up" is at best an extremely poor and temporary solution; it is, however, a problem for the University to solve. The demand for this solution is a fair one if the students are in turn asked to give as much as they can afford to the rents of rooms, to make in turn space for the poorer...
...months, years ago. The echo of the 1929 stock crash had hardly died away be fore the political cry for more and cheaper money took its place. This cry increased as the value of the dollar climbed higher and higher against the value of goods. President Hoover bucked the demand for currency inflation by attempts at credit inflation, most of them unsuccessful...
...members [of the House] are afraid if I waive immunity they will be bothered in the future by charges for little things. . . ." Finally he changed his mind again and agreed to a trial by jury. A mob of long unpaid, tatterdemalion Chicago schoolteachers invaded big Chicago banks to demand cooperation between banks and the taxless school board. Melvin Alvah Traylor put them off with an "I agree with you." Charles Gates Dawes cowed them with: "To hell with trouble makers...
...operative basis by the industry as a whole," was to make it possible for producers to hire talent without competitive bidding. Actors, writers, directors and especially agents were against the proposal. Organized opposition came from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which has supported studio employes in their demand for an audit of studio books as a preliminary to the wage cut. After a stormy meeting of the Academy's directors Cinemactor Conrad Nagel, the Academy's president, resigned last week. Cinema writers got a union organizer to help them reform the Screen Writers' Guild...
Former Vice President Dawes by characterizing the Chicago school teachers as "troublemakers" when they recently conducted riots in demand for back pay, has very adequately described the situation; and his shout, "to hell with them" shows quite as fully the attitude which has been and will continue to be taken to such demands...