Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agitation for a higher grade of books in Stillman has been smouldering for several years, and this year a group of Sophomores called it to the attention of the Student Council in a specific demand for "reading of a better sort than detective stories...
...great deal of printer's ink, ranging from suggestions in these columns to a more recent plagiarism of Jonathan Swift, has been expended in their behalf. The University was slow in taking steps, very possibly because the condition was considered temporary Justice and a certain mild realism now demand that Harvard find a permanent solution for a problem which ha itself become permanent, and that it find some stop-gap until this remedy is put into effect. Centuries mean little to Harvard, but three years of injustice can do much to a student...
...response to popular demand the Holyoke Film Series is presenting second showing of "A Nous la Liberte" at 10:20 o'clock on Thursday evening in Cantabrigia Hall...
First thing Mayor Bowron did was demand the resignations of the members of all the city's governing commissions from police to parks. Grandstanding District Attorney Buron Fitts then joined the graft hunt, impaneled a grand jury. First graft flushed was in the civil service examinations for promotions in the police and fire departments. When an influential Mexican-born police lieutenant named Peter ("The Thin Man") Del Gado, a great friend of Police Chief James Edgar Davis, denied taking bribes to tamper the examinations, he was indicted for perjury. Last fortnight Thin Man Del Gado gave a friend...
...repeal of the forty-hour week by decreelaw, and the military suppression of labor's right to strike, were not the methods a democratic premier should have chosen. He and the present deputies were elected one the pledge to uphold labor's demand for a forty-hour week; Daladier later reversed his own stand; but he had no right to change the nation's mind by coercion...