Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lapse of a year has brought disillusionment with it," Brailford declares, ". . .all this paralyzed enterprise, lowered demand end lessened buying power." Everyone is sitting tight and the working class is showing increasing irritation. Brailsford feels that these in control will continue to wait, letting things contract until the bottom is reached and all public debts have been completely reduced. Then at the World Economic Conference, they hope "to engineer a scheme of international inflation." Meanwhile wages drop lower and conditions become worse...
...hired Pennsylvania motor transport was banned from their highways. Hundreds of tons of fruit & vegetables had rotted around Pennsylvania's borders by the time a truce between New Jersey and Pennsylvania was reached. Pennsylvania was to enforce its new law "within reason." New Jersey would limit its license demand to "common carriers...
Once again certain Tories were after the snowy scalp of James Ramsay MacDonald last week. As usual the attack was led by High-Tariff Tories. Backed by the potent Beaverbrook Press, 150 of them huddled together in a secret meeting, then rushed the Cabinet with a demand for a 4d-a-pound tariff on foreign meats (with a tuppenny rebate for the Dominions) to protect the British farmer...
...time it was no prelude to flight. He was accompanied by M. Coutsamaris, chief of the Athenian Security Police. Three days prior, Secretary of State Stimson and Greek Minister Charalambos Simopoulos had met in Washington, D. C. and exchanged extradition treaties, making it possible for the U. S. to demand the arrest and return of Mr. Insull...
...sometime in February. This will give Von Papen's economic program a chance to show results. Von Papen has already achieved some success in his programs, notably a decrease in unemployment, the dropping of reparations payments for the time being, and his success in pleasing nationalist sentiment by his demand for equality in armaments...