Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considered apart from the features of collaboration between two universities, the essential idea of the plan is sound. There is, no doubt, a constant demand for lawyers with a thorough knowledge of business conditions. Such knowledge will be obtained in the curriculum which formerly had to be gained by years of experience. Many law graduates who enter business each year will find such training more valuable than the study of law itself. Aside from monetary rewards for their ingenuity, the schools will feel quite deservedly a definite satisfaction that they have succeeded in filling a definite gap in the methods...
Last week Governor McNutt, scholar, lawyer, War veteran, onetime (1928-29) national commander of the American Legion, explained what had happened: "People today demand ACTION. We have prepared our government to permit action. . . . State government has been getting out of hand. To bring it back under control demands centralization of power and a broad grant of authority. That power has now been granted in Indiana. . . . Instead of being the servant of the people I have become the slave of the people...
With a total capital of $30,000 plus $18,000 borrowed, the Granvilles built & sold 25 ships in four years. The collapse of the private plane market left scant demand for sport ships like theirs, but also left plenty of time for experiments with racing designs. With his smart Chief Engineer Robert L. Hall (since resigned) Granville produced the Gee-Bee Super Sportster in which the late Lowell Bayles broke the U. S. land plane speed record at the National Air Races in 1931. It was in a new Gee-Bee that famed "Jimmy'' Doolittle broke that record...
...editorial next appeared, from which I quote the expressions ""breezy westerners, stucco and tin of World's Fairs, new city with insurgent time for tradition and family to prove their merits, unthinking natives, ignorance, bad taste, jealousy. Anglophobe tendencies" applied obviously to the westerners, and the expressions "dignity, traditions, demand for solid cultural food" applied to the author's beloved New Englanders. By these very words, the editor betrayed a prejudicial opinion. Not only did he unjustly criticize the middle west, but he did so with the typical New England snobbishness of which the Tribune spoke. He stood branded...
...client. She explained that all her operations for clients were conducted in her own name, that some of them were on margin. When the market slumped she suddenly found the securities frozen in her brokerage accounts and bank loans. No matter how loudly a client might demand, there was no way to get the securities...