Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand co-operation from the Congress without returning any on behalf of the Government. ... I can read in no other way your peremptory refusal to discuss the ordinances. . . . The Congress must resist with its prescribed creed of non-violence such measures of legalized terrorism as have been imposed in various provinces...
Gasoline in storage increased 1,263,000 bbl. to 37,199,000. In 1931 exports of gasoline were off about 30%, total demand about 1½%. Domestic consumption increased 3% over...
When lack of consumers' demand in the spring of 1929 made readjustment inevitable, the country's leaders with one accord fought liquidation and put forth all sorts of schemes to prevent it. The credit corporations propose to make frozen assets good by rediscounting credit which never should have been extended in the first place and by waiting for land values to rise. The Administration should realize that farm land may never regain its old value, that assets which are depreciated now may always remain so, and that the position of the price level has little effect upon prosperity...
...been a dominant factor in college life in the past, though there is good reason to think that it is less potent today. It must be remembered however that the roots of that convention lie deep in American life. It is merely one reflection of the constant and characteristic demand for immediate practical return from money invested. Students are not greatly to be blamed for succumbing to a demand which has left its mark on the academic spirit itself. The congeries of technical and vocational courses in nearly all American colleges testifies to a sort of pragmatic sanction which educators...
...counsel. Mr. Kresel called her "the contestant"; Mr. Steuer, pointing, described her as "the lady at the end of the table." Plump, smiling, dressed in the slightly garish style of a typical upper-west side hausfrau, Charlotte Fixel waited for the court to decide whether she was entitled to demand one-half of an estate which she estimated at $75,000,000 or whether she would emerge, after her years of slightly dubious affluence, a dumpy disappointed warning to women who place their faith in "common...