Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serve as a "recruiting agency" for the Allies. Even before he left Washington Allied representatives began to pester him for U. S. troops to fill their ragged ranks. One long tiresome tussle ensued for the next 18 months as the A. E. F. commander resisted this continuous Allied demand. Before he ever fought the Germans, General Pershing was a veteran toughened by this form of combat against the British and French commanders and politicians...
...such material. They can hardly be called literature, however, and can best be likened to the stereotyped products turned out every week by the Hollywood movie mills. But as long as it is possible to keep a book and read it over more than once there will be a demand for a more enduring form of literature which is harmed much more than it is helped by wild claims and overpraise from the publicity office...
...dissatisfied with conditions existing in the courts," now under investigation, one year ago. Where facts failed, the Mayor used sophistry. How could he find evidence of bribery in the allotment of pier leases when Republican U. S. District Attorney Tuttle could not? To the City Affairs Committee's demand that three of his appointees be removed from the Department of Hospitals, the patriotic Mayor replied: "These three men all saw service in France with the A. E. F. while the complainant [Rabbi Stephen S. Wise] was endeavoring to break down American resistance behind the lines. No one would believe...
...colleges decided that their functions was to educate only potential geniuses. The best possibility for a satisfactory solution of the difficulty probably lies in an accentuation of the difference in standards which already exists among colleges. Those which are unambitious in intellectual lines can still fill a great demand, and probably a great need, for "college life," shorn of its worst absurdities. Those which aspire to produce great intellectual leaders can do so far more effectively by concentrating on that one thing. It means sacrificing nine tenths of what constitutes college life at present, including things which...
...city supplement this supply. Four years ago the city administration authorized a $275,000,000 program whereby the headwaters of the Delaware, all within New York State, would contribute materially to the municipal supply through an 80-mi. aqueduct. New Jersey hustled into the Supreme Court with a demand for an injunction against New York on the ground that diversion of the Delaware would seriously damage its interests. Pennsylvania, mindful of Philadelphia's future water needs, joined the fray. To Special Master Charles Newell Burch of Memphis the Supreme Court referred the case for hearing. Last February Mr. Burch...