Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber of Deputies passed the Foreign Office budget for 1933 last week. U. S. correspondents noted the fact, then prospected for news nuggets through page after page of official specifications. A 175-page supplement caused their hair to curl. Leonine Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour had demanded and got an additional appropriation of 33,000,000 francs ($1,320,000) for French propaganda abroad. In the introduction to his demand he explained that nine European Governments annually spend the following sums (in francs) in foreign propaganda: Germany: 256,000,000 (before Hitler) Italy: 119,000,000 France...
...Machado's late good friend Clemente, who was assassinated last year. Last week a Vasquez Bello man, Representative Arturo B. Aleman, wrote a letter to the newspaper Information answering small gossip he had heard that Carlos had spread about him. Promptly Carlos sent his seconds to Aleman to demand a duel (illegal in Cuba). Aleman chose seconds and primed his pistols. Groaning, President Gerardo Machado sent for Brother Carlos, told him to disappear until the bicker had been settled...
Just a year before that, another workman had been charged with sabotage. Few people took that very seriously. But the McDonald-Underwood story caused Navy-heckling Representative James V. McClintic of Oklahoma to demand, and get, an investigation by the Naval Affairs Committee. The Committee heard Goodyear-Zeppelin officials and Navy inspectors call the charges absurd. As a final gesture, the Committee set put to take a ride in the Akron. While the ship was being walked out of the dock before the Congressmen's eyes, a perverse wind dashed the Akron's tail against the ground, disabling...
While of "Forum," "The Nation." "Harper's," "Scribners," and "Current History" only four or five copies each week are sold, the Freshmen purchase forty of the weekly "New Yorkers." As for college humorous magazines, the first-year men demand more "Yale Records" than "Harvard Lampoons." Several hundred of the regular monthly illustrated magazines, such as "Cosmopolitan" and the "American," are bought each month; and in the "quality" class, "Vanity Fair," "Sportsman," and "Yachting" are the most popular...
...Asua the case was quashed when King Alfonso, Don Carlos de Bourbon and Fernando Marlo de Baviera presented documents disproving the entire story. In France the case dragged on & on. Should Deputy Asua's charges of last week stick, it may be possible for the Spanish government to demand Alfonso XIII's extradition on charges of forgery. True or false the affair revived not only the de Arrizola scandal but all the still earlier rumors of Alfonso's illegitimacy which even the growth of his super-Habsburg jaw never entirely obliterated...