Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Congress: A widower with three children, he chums mostly with other Southern Democrats, cuts no figure in Washington's formal society. His home is at Ozark, Ala. where, a power in local Democracy, he is in considerable demand as a public speaker. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, he fought down the Ku Klux Klan when it sprouted intolerantly in his district, had the courage in 1928 to stump for Alfred Emanuel Smith when James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin was trying to turn the State over to the Hoovercrats. He helped to oust Heflin...
...ambition. The quality of much of what they print, however, indicates that they neither aspire to be read as is the Saturday Evening Post, nor do they love filler. Admittedly students indulge in literary activities only for their own pleasure, and if in the long month of January the demand which a strict code of literary merit makes upon the undergraduate editors is so great that it destroys their pleasure in their work, and their standing in the College at the same time, then they are right in refusing to hold to such a standard...
...relations with Ivar Kreuger in 1929, suddenly suspicious at his haste in seeking loans, the number of companies he controlled, the big profits he reported. In Manhattan the protective committee, headed by Bainbridge Colby and with Samuel Untermeyer as counsel, passed a resolution asking the Swedish authorities to demand a cash settlement from Kreuger's U. S. bankers before a re-organization of either Kreuger & Toll or International Match. The committee continued to hint it would sue the U. S. bankers for misrepresentation, ask them to rescind the sale of Kreuger & Toll bonds. In Stockholm bullish Swedes who hoped Swedish...
...lowering room rents should not be obscured by this latest manifestation of official awakening. Board and room are totally independent and merit separate consideration. The lowering of one cost does not preclude lowering the other. Lehman Hall must now turn its attention toward answering a similar and equally justified demand for less expensive rooms...
...formed the American Expeditionary Forces. Many of them were drafted, and used every expedient to avoid service. Others of the "veterans" never saw a transport. They have only the precedent of Civil War and Spanish-American War survivors to give them a moral basis for their demand, and thinking people agree that such a precedent should be broken...