Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Agriculture: "The Farm Board has many achievements to its credit. . . . The prices received by the American farmer, cruelly low though they are, are higher than the prices received by the farmers of any competing nation. . . . We will support any plan which will help to balance production against demand and thereby raise agricultural prices, provided it is economically sound and administratively workable...
...masses." Mr. Smith also supplied the country with a full-length platform on debt revision, pub lic works, taxation, economy, Prohibition. He was vividly acclaimed for straight thinking, plain speaking. As his popularity rose, he heard on all sides that he and he alone could win the election. The demand for his nomination reached a climax fort night ago when the potent Scripps-Howard papers vehemently demanded: "Give us Alfred E. Smith...
...Armies" of determined citizens have besieged the Federal capital before. In 1783 recruits from Lancaster, Pa. marched to Philadelphia to demand more pay, frightened the Congress of the Confederation across the Delaware to Princeton. The siege ended on the report that General Washington was sending Continentals to deal with the "army...
None of these compared in size or determination with the B. E. F., last week estimated at 20,000 strong. Under Commander-in-Chief Walter W. Waters they were quiet, orderly, law-abiding. After the Senate rejected their demand, though, Washington grew taut with apprehension. What would these idle, ragged men, ghosts of the A. E. F., do next? Police Chief Glassford of the District of Columbia suggested giving them Federal lands to till for a living. Commander Waters said they would "dig in for the winter" and stay "till hell freezes." Red agitators began to work within the ranks...
...Lloyd George. "I was the leader of the delegation which negotiated the Irish Treaty [in 1921] so I have had experience with Mr. de Valera. There is no one quite like him and this distracted world should be thankful that he is unique! [cries of 'Hear, Hear'] . . . . His demand is that Ireland be an independent and sovereign State associated with the British Empire but equally associated with any other empire. We cannot accept that! [tremendous cheer-ing]. . . . If we were to have anything like Mr. de Valera in a council of nations when we are trying to accommodate our difficulties...