Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deeper than plans for an appropriate cortege, or for a day of universal mourning. Tumult and shouting can only defer the day when she will have to scan anew the list of aspirants to her highest office. Charles E. Merriam will, somewhat more impatiently after these twenty years, demand again that a government now impecunious must pass to the expert, and to the honest; and at the University there will be reawakened vistas of regulatory grandeur. Clicking receivers will carry tentative promises of patronage to the Mayor's revived political opponents. And it is even conceivable that the suave Windsors...
...relaxed its hitherto exclusive policy. In view of the increased emphasis being placed on students dining together in the Houses, the position of those denied this privilege has become more and more anomalous. Space, kitchen equipment, and service all being available in the Union, there is no obvious reason, demand warranting, why the present plan should not be made permanent, thus meeting a long standing need with the same spirit in which the present emergency has been countered...
...Ford's antipathy for bankers dates back to 1920 when he tried to borrow $85,000,000 in Wall Street only to learn that the lenders would demand a voice in running his automobile company. He distrusts the U. S. banking system, feels that bankers too often speculate with deposits. Said he earlier last week: "The first duty of a bank is to be a safe repository for money. . . . It's just as if I put my car in a garage and when I came to get it, I found somebody else had borrowed...
Charges that Tsar Boris and his Italian-born Tsaritsa broke a prenuptial, written pledge to Pope Pius XI when they permitted their first child, a girl, to be baptized Bulgarian Orthodox (TIME, Jan. 23), have been met by angry Bulgarians with the demand: "Produce the document...
...event that the Congress shall fail" this is the key to the whole issue. In the last years there has been a growing demand on the part of the American people for dictatorship, a demand which has been based on the clear conviction that Congress has already failed. Congressional procedure is far too clumsy; its knowledge, especially of industrial and commercial relations, is far too inadequate. As a result, the business life of America is either hedged with absurd restrictions, or permitted entire freedom of action where central supervision is necessary...