Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Disarmament a boiling issue, Senator Borah, powerful chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, fortnight ago gave North American Newspaper Alliance his views on Germany's demand for arms equality with the rest of Europe. Excerpts: "Germany's demand for equality is natural, essentially and fundamentally just. The plea for the sanctity of treaties is sound but it should and must include all parties. The Versailles Treaty has not been observed with reference to Disarmament by the governments which dictated its terms. . . . Technically to observe the terms of a treaty while violating it in spirit and moral...
...nation-wide crime wave, lashed into destructive fury by the power of gangland born of a monstrous legal blunder, has created such a demand for severity in law enforcement that there has grown with that demand a laxity in observance by law officers of those rights which it is fatal to ignore, even though that ignoring results in the entrapment of the guilty." Lawyer Lilleston of Kansas was the comic relief. He called himself "the forgotten...
...skiff and two Negroes, ordered them to row him to Fort Sumter. "He was wearing his red sash, his huge Texas spurs, and at regular intervals he would wave his bared sword with its pocket handkerchief flag, and send his enormous voice roaring toward the fort with a demand that it surrender." By some senatorial miracle Wigfall escaped annihilation, interviewed Sumter's commander, Anderson, made terms which Anderson took as official. Beauregard, embarrassed, annoyed, "very cheerfully" abided by them...
Running guards will be in demand and it is likely that Pescosolido and Locke will play a great part of the game. A long defense staged by the Junior Varsity displayed that the first line was practically invulnerable to the Dartmouth plays. Fortified by yesterday's intensive drill, and encouraged by the prospect of a vigorous battle which will test the Crimson's strength, for the first time, the whole squad will go on the field fully prepared to take the Indian's scalps...
...satisfy the tenants' demand for speed and the owners' need of profit is a complex problem which Carl F. Scott, Manhattan engineer, discussed in the current Engineering News-Record...