Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distribution to relief clients (TIME, June 27). 2) To call for bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers' Alliance of America (national union of WPA & relief workers) and hear his demand that WPA's minimum wage be raised from $21 per month...
Railroads. Because Labor insisted that the railroad industry give up its demand for a 15% wage cut if a bill for railroad relief was allowed to pass Congress, the session closed without anything being done for the railroads. Result: unless the Interstate Commerce Commission closes its eyes to the facts, and certifies to the RFC that the hard-pressed roads can repay loans made to them (the necessary requisite for RFC loans), it is highly likely that within a few months most U. S. railroads will be bankrupt...
Fortnight ago organizations of U. S. Jews were bitterly at odds over a demand by Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise and his American Jewish Congress for a referendum on whether an all-inclusive agency should be formed to defend Jews' rights. Last week 38 grave Jewish leaders, called together by Merchant Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, assembled in Pittsburgh to talk over a compromise. By day's end they had found one, which was quickly ratified by the four big organizations-American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Labor Committee and B'nai B'rith. They agreed to form...
...they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore what their government ought to do and is going to do for them is ... a contemptible kind of demagoguery. . . . The plain hard truth is that these kids and our whole population now demand many times more of everything than [the older generation] did and are not willing to work as hard or suffer as much...
There is no division within the field, and a review of the main courses is sufficient to pass the general exam which must be taken by all concentrators at the end of Senior year. Therefore the demand for tutorial is not great except to correlate zoology and botany, but it is greater than the supply, for the tutors, though numerous, do not appear to have much time to spend on their tutees. Stier and Renn took more time in tutoring than others, and both were highly recommended. Unfortunately even the desire of the student for further independent study is dampened...