Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are between ten and twelve million unemployed. . . . Men and women search the garbage cans, especially in the more prosperous neighborhoods, for food that has been left?men competing with rats and stray cats of the street. . . . That's how the celebrated law of supply & demand works under Capitalism! . . . The situation is worse rather than better in State after State, especially in those hells on earth, the bituminous coal mining camps. Next winter offers no hope except a complete breakdown, made more terrible by riots and actual starvation...
...notice column of the New York Times with the message: "Status?Proposal and conditions accepted. Signed: Zelevart." Though "Status" represented himself as a man who had frequently borrowed and paid off much larger sums but who had fallen on financially evil days, "Zelevart" could not legally comply with the demand. Its tactful answer to "Status" was that his position was not unique, that "your moral support and affection will add more ... to your family than monetary consideration so obtained." Travelers reported no suicides among its policy holders...
This was hedging, weasling?perhaps a wise course since it left open every avenue for muddling through. In sharp contrast was South Africa's crisp demand for "the restoration of the gold standard" throughout the Empire (South African pounds & shillings being still on the gold standard...
...Yale, sometimes appearing at meetings with a classbook under his arm. He spent vacations working on the road. His family's direct U. P. holdings are estimated at only 1.63% of the common stock but the Board sought him as chairman for several reasons. The position does not demand a professional railroadman. The chairman is often chosen for his financial and personal prestige. Son Harriman has both in abundance. His duties will not be so arduous that he will have to relinquish any of his other interests although friends last week reflected grimly that, having found the going hard...
When they had looked at a cartoon in Berlin's Socialist Vorwärts and read an article in Cologne's Catholic Volkzeitung the new German Cabinet of Chancellor Franz von Papen made formal demand upon the Prussian Government to punish both papers by suspending them for five days...