Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wanted: An Apology. When President Hoover read this statement in his morning newspaper, he was wroth indeed. He gave his temper nine hours to cool. Then he issued to the Press an answer, a challenge and a demand to the Navy League. Excerpt...
...representing the various Yard Dormitories, voted in favor of a Freshman Ten Dance to take place in the Common Rooms of the Union after the Harvard -- Yale game November 21. The dance, which will last from 5 until 7 o'clock, in reported to be in response to popular demand, and has the approbation of Dolmar Leighten '17, dean of the first year class, and Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University. The affair, the first of its kind and, if successful, a possible class function in the nature of a fall supplement to the Freshman Jubilee of the spring...
Whatever the faults of America's present system of university education, it must be admitted that nowhere--save perhaps in Scotland--is there so general a demand for education, so universal a faith in its sovereign power of ministering to success. America has about 920,000 college and university students. There were about 145 colleges and universities under public control, 520 under private control and 260 junior colleges in the United States in 1926, according to The World Almanac. The value of their property alone, in 1927, was estimated at $2,413,748,981. The spiritual returns from this investment...
...advise you that I have taken the oath of office as Governor of the State of Louisiana and have been inducted into office, and, under the Constitution of Louisiana, you have no further right to claim possession of the Governorship or exercise any functions thereof. I therefore demand of you that you immediately surrender the office, its archives, and all that appertains to said office and divest yourself of the appearance of chief executive of Louisiana...
...Manhattan, indictments on misdemeanor charges were issued against Joseph A. Broderick, State Superintendent of Banks, and 28 officers and directors of defunct Bank of United States. Mr. Broderick was named in three charges of neglect of duty and conspiracy in keeping the bank open. Asked if he would demand Superintendent Broderick's resignation, Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: "Certainly not, I have every confidence in his complete integrity...