Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little more finesse, President McKinley affected the same result. Afraid that the Democrats would capture the election on a war platform, he sent a message to Congress which advocated armed interference and tucked into one short paragraph the fact that Spain had just that morning acceded to every demand made by the United States. An for Mr. Roosevelt, nothing would be loss difficult for him than to force war upon this country if he were interested in doing it. A warship dispatched to Manchuria to see that an American exporter paid duties only to Chinese officials would make an armament...
Processors Taxed. Also provided was a means of raising the millions & millions to pay farmers for better obedience to the law of supply & demand. The Secretary of the Treasury was to collect a tax, fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture, on the processing of wheat into flour, cotton into cloth, hogs into ham, corn into meal, milk into butter. This tax, which processors were expected to pass on to consumers, must "equal the difference between the current average farm price for the commodity and [its] fair exchange value"- that is, pre-War parity. Thus the wheat processing tax last month...
...only salvation, promptly resigned. Most of the directors including General James Guthrie Harbord, chairman of Radio Corp., Matthew Scott Sloan, onetime president of New York Edison, Chairman Frank Bailey of Prudence Co., also quit in disgust. With Director Frederick J. Lisman's resignation went a strong demand for an investigation by an impartial stockholders' committee...
Mayor James M. Curley of Boston, reluctant to temporize, has placed his demand for an appointment directly before President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull. A certain polite nebula hangs over the administration, and its views of Mr. Curley, but there can be little doubt that he has engineered a very disturbing situation. The strong light thrown on the more disagreeable phases of the patronage system, however, has brought a significant issue into relief...
...short, the men themselves are in real demand, they give a material contribution to the University, and in most cases they derive considerable benefit or valuable business experience from their work, which is of a kind certainly more compatible with an educational career than waiting on tables. Next year's trial should be watched most carefully with a view toward the value of making this student employment by the University into a permanent system...