Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor of Cryptogamie Botany and Chairman of the Department of Botany, said that lack of the desired type of films would hinder the frequent use of the machine for some years to come. Ordinary motion pictures will be shown almost exclusively for the present, pending the growth of a demand from colleges throughout the country sufficient to bring about the production of talks, for the study of academic subjects. There are, however, a few such films in existence and it is expected that these will be procured at once...
...Lord Mayor of Birmingham, the Chamberlain family bailiwick. Once before he was Chancellor of the Exchequer but so briefly that he never brought in a budget (TIME, April 13). Recently, as Conservative campaign strategist, he rolled up the greatest party ma- jority in British history, won his right to demand the Exchequer as his Cabinet plum. Prime Minister MacDonald, a life-long free trader, knows that Chancellor Chamberlain will buckle a tariff belt of some sort around Mother Britain, cannot stop this unwelcome belting...
...ounce against the year's low of 25!^. For the first time silver trading on the National Metal Exchange, Manhattan, became clamorous, wild. Public buying was attracted because silver can be bought on a 6% margin. Companies with stakes in silver-currency nations were in demand, shares of mining com- panies were widely bought. Copper remained at 7^ but it was reported that consumers were taking all offerings. Manchurian war talk aided bullishness in copper, but the strongest copper shares were those with big silver interests...
...them part of their salaries in dollars. At the present time salaries are paid wholly in rubles, which are of greatly decreased value outside of the country and yet even under these conditions the number of Americans willing to pay their own passages is far in excess of the demand...
When younger, militant, more ambitious Conservatives begged Leader Baldwin to put some kind of pressure on the Prime Minister, to demand at the very least that two-thirds of all ministries in the post- election National Government must be turned over to Conservatives, Mr. Baldwin knocked out his pipe and said...