Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected I shall fight with all my power for the payment of foreign debts. I will see them paid dollar for dollar.? These loans were made with the intention that they should be paid on demand. But what did the Administrations of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover ever do toward collecting? The latter two let us into 'conferences' from which Uncle Sam emerged with very little left but chin whiskers after the Republicans had trimmed the debts down until only 30% was left...
...soldiers but military authorities imposed the death penalty automatically on enemy soldiers who passed more than a fortnight behind the lines without surrendering. An orderly read out the names: "Henriet, Quartermaster of the Luneville Dragoons, son of M. Henriet & Mme nee de Gail." A German officer sprang up to demand if Quartermaster Henriet was related to the von Gayls of East Prussia. He was. The whole case was reported to the Kaiser by the Grand Duchess of Baden, friend of the family, and the sentences of all 15 men were commuted to internment in a prison camp...
Because the scrap industry is composed of many small units, the market is free, highly-competitive, peculiarly sensitive to supply & demand. When the steel industry, using more scrap than ore-made pig iron, is in the market for scrap, every dealer knows it; the price responds accordingly. Keen students of business therefore keep their eye on scrap prices to get wind of imminent changes in steel production-keystone of the nation's industrial life. Bullish brokers nodded last week when scrap prices were upped in both the Pittsburgh and Chicago districts. But some of their joy was sapped when...
...stampeder at Chicago, to wangle a $32.000,000 loan with which to build a power transmission line from Hoover Dam. A Miami citizen sought $12,000,000 to build a highway bridge from the mainland to Key West. New York's crafty Mayor Walker prepared for a grandstand demand for R. F. C. funds to finish his $30,000,000 Tri-Borough Bridge (Manhattan-Queens-Bronx...
...undenominational religious magazine, leftward in its liberalism, The World Tomorrow was founded in 1918 with Norman Mattoon Thomas as first editor. It is becoming a weekly, after 15 years, because "the times in which we are now living demand a sustained emphasis upon religion, pacifism, and socialism, and . . . no other American journal is concentrating upon this combination...