Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation in the 20th Century bigger than Albania or Serbia ever turn in an abject apology on demand to another within 24 hours before...
Against this "wealth" Laborite Lang would issue money, as it is usually issued against gold. He also proposed that the interest paid on Australian Government bonds be reduced to 3%. Finally he urged the Premiers of all the Australian States to demand from Great Britain "as favorable terms in repaying our debt as were granted by the United States" to Great Britain...
...days later the Fascistless Reichstag passed a resolution that genuinely worried European chancellories: a demand for an impartial commission to study the origins of the World War, to settle the problem of War guilt. Observers realized that if such an international commission should deny the sole guilt of Germany and her allies as set forth in the Treaty of Versailles (and most historians do deny it as they also deny her complete innocence) Germans would have what might seem to them a legitimate excuse to stop paying reparations...
...passage of the Bonus Loan Bill through the Senate appears to be an extremely short sighted move on the part of the representatives of the nation. The bill if repassed over the President's practically certain veto, will mean a demand of approximately one and a quarter billions of dollars on the federal treasure. About two million men, according to General Hines of the Veteran Bureau, will apply for loans if this bill, enabling them to borrow up to fifty per cent on the the face value of their bonus certificates, goes into effect...
Lotte Reiniger's silhouette motion picture, "The Adventures of Prince Achmed," will be shown twice this afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum, at 2 and 3.45 o'clock. The demand for tickets so far exceeded the space for the first performance last Saturday that it was decided to give two more showings today...