Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exploits of New York City's vigorous young Racketbuster Thomas Edmund Dewey* not only gave impetus to a new cinema vogue but set up a lively demand for real life counterparts as well. Last month, before his legislature met, Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark published a tempting want ad. If any place needed a Dewey, thundered the Governor, it was that haven of corruption, Kansas City, stamping ground, of his old enemy, Boss Tom Pendergast. Governor Stark ordered his Attorney General Roy McKittrick to go into action. Last week the play was taken out of McKittrick...
When Judge Southern's turn came again, Governor Stark's demand for a Kansas City Dewey was still dangling. Attorney General McKittrick had conferred with Kansas City's Prosecutor W. W. Graves, a tame Pendergast cat, who announced that there was nothing to investigate. Judge Southern suddenly issued search warrants, sent police out raiding...
Although secrecy surrounds the daily conferences in Lehman Hall, points in dispute are believed to be a Union demand for a closed shop and higher wages for waitresses. The present contract provides for a preferential shop...
...sell arms to the elected government of Spain, we nevertheless impose no restrictions on such sales to Italy and Germany. Thus, unable to supply her men with the most elementary equipment, Barcelona had to succumb . . . to German and Italian arms . . . The interests of peace and sane international relations demand that the arms embargo be lifted...
...When contracts for hurricane repair work, signed by Mr. Reardon, reached $410,232, the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Association decided to investigate. What the federation discovered caused Attorney General Paul Dever to investigate and stop payment on most of the contracts and Governor Saltonstall last fortnight to demand Mr. Reardon's resignation. His charge: "You are incompetent and unfit...