Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a $500,000 second mortgage. Last week in Manhattan he hustled his lawyers over to the New York County register's office to have it recorded. No ordinary second mortgage, it was junior to a first mortgage of $200,000, was non-interest bearing, payable on demand, and was a lien on a conventional Fifth Avenue mansion...
Last week the owner-occupant of the mansion had worse than mortgages pay-able-on-demand to think about. One evening the momentary peace of his after-dinner cigaret was shattered by the entrance of a U. S. marshal who promptly arrested him. Not even allowed to summon his own chauffeur, he was whisked downtown to a Federal judge in an automobile which the marshal had hastily borrowed. One of the prisoner's battalion of lawyers, Robert H. Thayer, suddenly called from a party, arrived in the courtroom in evening clothes, arranged for $10,000 bail. Two hours later...
Kobe (advising Japan to take up birth control): "There is no reason why Japan should continue to expand and demand the right to overflow other countries which naturally resent an influx of a lower civilization...
...Cruz Alta, Argentina, Ricardo Pignon, 5, his head filled with tales of kidnappers, heard a tax collector demand money from his grandfather, shot the collector dead...
...hops were used for other than brewing in pre-Prohibition days. Assuming that this amount still holds, then the beer business may be said to be already operating at about 45% of its pre-Prohibition capacity. If it is going to operate at 50% the demand for raw materials for brewing should increase only about 10% over last year: 2,000,000 Ib. more hops, 3,000,000 bu. more barley, 800,000 bu. more corn. Hardly a pinch in a peck of U. S. grain production. The big new grain consumption will come only after beer production exceeds...