Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discovering a "public demand" for his services at Albany. Colonel Donovan last month threw himself ardently into a personal campaign for the gubernatorial nomination. His chief handicap is that he lacks the backing of the local Buffalo organization. In Manhattan he was given a dinner last week by the New York Young Republican Club at which he declared: "The American people must give themselves another Boston Tea Party and this time throw the pork barrels overboard." He flayed Governor Roosevelt's Columbus speech as "so much flypaper spread out in the hope of ensnaring the vote of the discontented...
...ballot count slowly progressed Governor Sterling and Mrs. Ferguson seesawed back & forth with sometimes only a few hundred votes separating them. When Governor Sterling's lead moved above 3,000. Jim Ferguson, whose impeachment and removal as Governor put his wife into politics and office, began to demand a recount...
...blast of evangelism, chiefly in the Methodist and Baptist faiths. General Washington one day went to Rev. John Gano, chaplain in the Continental Army, and exclaimed: "I have been investigating the Scripture, and I believe immersion to be baptism taught in the Word of God, and I demand it at your hands. I do not wish any parade made or the army called out, but simply a quiet demonstration of the ordinance." In the presence of 42 witnesses George Washington was immersed in the Potomac; but he did not give "personal testimony" which would have made him a member...
...With demand naturally set by hungry city stomachs and supply controlled by him and his kind. Farmer John Chalmers of Boone County, Iowa, did not see why agricultural producers could not hold their food stuffs off the urban markets, give townsmen a taste of starvation and thus raise farm prices to a decent level. Tall, thin-lipped Milo Reno, belligerent former president of Iowa Farmers' Union, did not see why, either. Somebody, he argued, was bound to starve at current prices. Last May at the Des Moines Fair Grounds bushy-haired Milo Reno, in baggy trousers and a five...
...hair is mohair or artificial silk, but eye lashes are real hair, imported from nuns in certain Italian convents at $8 a pound. Though many a doll is sold naked or equipped merely with a diaper and safety pin, complete wardrobes are available. In Cleveland in 1928 a heavy demand was found for dolls' trousseaux (including evening dresses and ermine wrap) retailing...