Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ominous beginning the All-India Committee passed a resolution demanding that India be allowed to write her own Constitution and urged sending to Britain a six-month ultimatum as the proper period for a reply to India's "national demand." Failing a satisfactory answer in that time, the Party would be free to take matters into its own hands...
...built up the all-important political atmosphere. Appalled by the spectre of $47,000,000,000 falling into the hands of American Senators and Representatives, economists and political scientists have led the movement to revise the Act itself, and so successful has this movement been that political expediency now demands compliance. Realizing this fact, a New Deal advisory heard, the Social Security Council, has been examining ways and means of revision, and recently recommended more liberal benefits in the early years of the plan in addition to the oft-heard suggestion that all categories of workers be included...
...Great Britain would never, never give way to force. As the date of Führer Adolf Hitler's annual speech to the Reichstag approached (see p. 17), wild rumors circulated that the Führer would: 1) back up Friend Benito Mussolini in a Mediterranean showdown, 2) demand a redistribution of colonies, 3) ask for $10,000,000,000 as reparations for the colonies taken away from Germany after the World...
Reason for the 17-year record: Depression II cut imports, notably raw materials for manufacture, 36% to $1,960,528,000, while steadier business conditions abroad, plus demand for armaments and food, held U. S. exports at $3,094,095,000, a drop of only...
Students will consider Housing practically as well as theoretically, with laboratory projects, investigation of the Housing possibilities of Boston, planned. They will draw up a "balance sheet" of the new houses in the city, balancing supply against the demand for each year...