Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violently split the majority party, will be in effect a plebiscite on H. R. 7233 by the islands' 13,000,000 inhabitants. Meanwhile, Senor Quezon, whom many Filipinos already hail as the islands' "Presidente," planned to sail for the U. S. and Washington in the spring to demand "immediate independence" from the Roosevelt administration. El Presidents Quezon is 54. Under H. R. 7233 he would not become the unborn Commonwealth's chief executive until...
Briefly, it seeks to urge another $1,250,000,000 from the unwilling pockets of all this country's Allied debtors in four yearly installments of $312,000,000 each. This clause is plainly designed to pacify in advance derisive jingoes who intend to demand each last, least dollar of payment. The second clause of the plan is the most important...
...same time, the real and unseverable connection between Peace and the Pocketbook has never been clearly understood. War has always been immediately profitable: prices and wages have risen, steel, the barometer of business, has always skyrocketed, leather, sugar, munitions, staples have always been in demand, farmers have been able to pay off the old mortgage. The depression thereafter for which the nation has had to pay with far more misery and death than for War itself is not connected with it in the popular mind...
...collapse of the mark in Germany after the World War. Besides this danger, there is the fact that the present potential currency of the nation is not all in circulation. The banks have not issued all the money they are entitled to, simply because there has not been sufficient demand from financially secure sources. The government itself, then, must be the agent of distribution for this currency, and would be directly involved in any disorder resulting...
...Europe's War debts to the U. S. have slowly died out. Last week Professor Sprague, now an accepted and respected figure in "The City" (London's financial district), created a stir by stating his conviction that Prosperity can be restored in industrial countries by creating a demand for a new product-such as the motor car once was. This new product, said the Bank of England's Sprague, does not have to be invented. It is already at hand. Industrialists, aided by their Governments, have only to begin "Fordization of housing." If they throw sufficiently cheap...