Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to find examples of indiscretion and tactlessness in the past month. When business demanded that the government raise its heavy hand of regulation, the latter responded in two quite rash ways: Assistant Attorney General Jackson, with his political eye cocked at his chief, berated the "business Bourbons"; Secretary Ickes claimed that sixty families controlled the economic destiny of the nation. Labor opened its mouth first when Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., said that most trade union leaders thought the government had gone too far in regulating industry. The U. A. W., an affiliate...
Hull, Hirota, Hopes. What caused the Panay incident to retain its high rating as an international crisis was the conspicuous delay of a reply to the State Department's demand for a formal apology, promise of indemnity and "satisfactory guarantees" that the episode would not be repeated. At week's end the formal apology finally arrived-just in time to be published in the U. S. simultaneously with a complete report of the bombing by the Panay's Lieutenant Commander J. J. Hughes and the findings of a naval court of inquiry which had been sifting eyewitness...
...possible that a husband with concubines was scarcely acceptable as a suitor in the Chinese Christian family of Soong. Mei-ling's father, famed "Old Charlie" Soong, had made his fortune as a pioneer in printing and selling Bibles to Chinese as fast as the missionaries created a demand. Investing his profits at about 40% Chinese interest, he died a merchant prince. Old Mrs. Soong had not forgotten that her late husband had tumbled another of her daughters unceremoniously into the arms of old Dr. Sun Yat-sen (who also had another wife at the time) and that...
...seat. Farouk refused to confirm the Cabinet's selection and the thwarted Premier again backed down, agreed to nominate a candidate neutral in the controversy. Last week the bickering came to a head with both King and Cabinet in a bellicose mood. The Cabinet sent Farouk a flat demand that he sign a bill recently passed by Parliament allowing the Premier to distribute, without accounting for, some $195,000 in secret funds for suppression of foreign propaganda...
...frustrated as it may be, still has plenty of political vitality. In far off Vermont, grey, bespectacled Governor George D. Aiken, who has been boomed by his New England neighbors as another budget-balancing Presidential possibility, took occasion to attack the party's present leadership and to demand, instead of a creed, an end to the age-old rotten borough representation of the South in Republican national conventions. To welcome Republican Chairman Hamilton when he arrived late in St. Louis from Washington, reporters asked him about such criticism as that of New Jersey's Robert W. Johnson (medical...