Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frowned upon by the American Legion which has hushed its demand for Bonus cashing. At the National Republican Club in Manhattan last week Major General James Guthrie Harbord, retired, voiced one popular view when he declared: "Nothing so ominous or so nasty as the Bonus march has been seen since 1916 when organized labor forced through the eight-hour-day railroad law under threat of strike. Not since 1783 has an army of citizens marched on the Capitol with evil in their hearts. . . . Something must be done to curb this movement. Otherwise it will spread...
...Germany can pay nothing more in Reparations and cannot even accept an extension of the Hoover Moratorium, under which the principle of German payment is upheld by having the Reich pay comparatively small sums into the Bank for International Settlements which are then re-loaned to Germany. The German demand to be presented at Lausanne was for total cancellation of Reparations with no strings attached...
...except Don Carlos Davila who was suspected of making it up as he went along, feeling his way, testing the Great Powers which have a billion dollars invested in Chile to see what they would let him get away with, testing the Chilean populace to see what they would demand. Finally, however, Don Carlos handed to United Press this definite statement of his aims...
...Socialist lead, revolutions being notably contagious. While Great Britain waited, her House of Commons cheered a Foreign Office statement reminding Chile who rules the waves: "His Majesty's Government takes the most serious view of the Chilean Government's confiscatory measures and . . . will strongly support a demand for full compensation to British interests affected...
...epicure. If he is not hungry you put a little sugar water on the skin to coax him. To make him let go you put salt water. . . . He is also a social barometer. If Prohibition was a success, then there would be less drunks, less black eyes, less demand for leeches. But no, the leech business is good. . . . You drive an old horse into the water. When he comes out he is covered with leeches. But better yet is a nice fat lady...