Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Martial law was matched against economic law in Oklahoma last week. The State's oil industry was the object of a dramatic experiment to see if rifles and machine guns can replace supply and demand as price fixers. Conductor of the experiment was Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray, fresh from his Red River bridge war with Texas (TIME...
...believe I have taken the proper course. . . . Will the measures which have been adopted or recommended prove sufficient to withstand the evil? We must hope so. As to the remedies which will act more profoundly . . . these remedies demand, above everything else, an evolution of a political and moral nature...
...same demand that France has been making at every disarmament conference since the War. It has always come to grief through Washington's insistence that the U. S. cannot enter any European political alliance. Last fortnight the policy of Isolation apparently went by the board when the U. S. took the lead in an international economic conference. Was the U. S. thinking of giving up her political isolation too? The idea was certainly at the back of many French minds last week...
Foreign Exchange. A rough-hewn plug to caulk the constant draining of German capital abroad was the following order: "Whoever owns foreign exchange or has claims for foreign exchange shall offer the claims or the exchange to the Reichsbank on the ordinary business conditions, and upon demand shall sell or transfer them to the bank...
Every German, in other words, must declare exactly what foreign money or foreign securities he possessed, and must sell them on demand to the Reichsbank at market rates...