Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express publicly their real opinions." He was also quoted as saying that the U. S. had the same right to the Philippines as had been exercised by the Indonesians, the Malays and the Spaniards-the right of conquest. This set the Manila politicos sputtering. Through their news organs they demanded elucidation, comment, argument. But Secretary Hurley could not be reached. He had made off into the Igorot country. Back from the Igorots, who pleaded against immediate independence as did the Moros, Secretary Hurley made his first official utterance in the islands. It was not about insular independence. "For several months...
...offers to improve Franco-German relations, that they had carefully kept every conversation to a series of polite generalities. There is a large intractable lump of the French population who want no traffic whatever with France's hereditary enemy. Fortunately they are far from a majority, but the rest demand results. Newspapers did their best to answer the question that all Frenchmen were asking, "What good will...
...Roney and ex-Mayor J. H. Radford had disliked each other for years. One morning a road-scraping machine went into operation directly in front of the ex-mayor's house, put the ex-mayor into a frightful humor, sent him hurrying to the police chief to demand that the nuisance cease. The police chief put his left hand on the ex-mayor's shoulder, the ex-mayor put his left hand on the police chief's shoulder; with their right hands they drew pistols, shot each other to death...
After his speech the Mahatma admitted that he had just received a large white petticoat from an infuriated Briton with a demand that he "cover his nudity with...
...nine separate motor companies had approached Stutz with offers to buy, sell, merge or be merged. To each & every such approach, President Gorrell & colleagues had firmly answered, "No!" Last week President Gorrell proudly added: "Stutz will stand alone. Stutz by itself has too satisfactory a position to warrant or demand a merger...