Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect such repeal, we demand that the Congress immediately propose a Constitutional amendment to truly representative conventions in the States called to act solely on that proposal...
...demand that the Federal Government effectively exercise its power to enable those states to protect themselves against importation of intoxicating liquors in violation of their laws...
...Papen's Dream. Exceedingly ingenious and in the trickiest tradition of European diplomacy, the MacDonald-Herriot formula appeared to settle everything while actually settling nothing. It fitted the U. S. State Department's demand that Europe must reach a final settlement of Reparations without reference to War Debts, yet if the next U. S. President and Congress prove reluctant to cancel all or part of what Europe owes, the Allies or any one of them can regain a completely free hand, merely by failing to ratify the MacDonald-Herriot formula...
Welshmen were full of praise last week for William George, brother of David Lloyd George.* Flaying the British Broadcasting Corp. as a "language dumper, William George hotly declared, Like an eternal distillery it is distilling English, English English all the time. We demand broadcasts in Welsh!" Though fluent in Welsh David Lloyd George sorely vexes his brother William George by broadcasting exclusively in English...
Italian Jews developed the idea of bills of exchange in international commerce. From bills of exchange grew promissory notes and paper money, which is a government's promise to pay on demand. Italian lawyers last week adduced tradition & history for their opinion that Hyderabad might not legally repudiate the millions in paper rupees which the Artiglio IPs crew carefully cleared of sea slime and dried...