Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incidents such as the sinking last fortnight of the Panay by Japanese aircraft are among the immediate causes of wars. But last week the incident aroused no outcry, no demand in Congress or the press that the U. S. Navy immediately steam across the Pacific to blow Tokyo off the map. What was remarkable was that it produced precisely the opposite effect. While the State Department was engaged in sending the sharpest notes since the World War, reaction of the U. S. generally was alarm, not that Japan would go unpunished, but that the offense might somehow involve...
...lawmaking mills grind, the fog of uncertainty mocks the industrial planner. Business needs more than a mere breathing spell from legislative experimentation. It needs positive, reliable assurance that the complicated terms and conditions under which it must function are finally determined, subject only to an unmistakable public demand for their amendment. As it is, the businessman is the subject of more legislative concern than the criminal. The latter enjoys far less uncertainty of the laws prescribing his operations. The criminal laws are stabilized...
Before the week was out Franklin Roosevelt called Cordell Hull to the White House and directed him to demand that the Japanese Foreign Office inform Japan's sacred Emperor Hirohito-the divine Son of Heaven and 129th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess who helped "produce the land and people of Japan"-that the President of the U. S. was shocked and concerned at Japan's behavior. For Japanese-American relations had not been so clarified as mealy-mouthed Admiral Honda believed, and they had reached a more dangerous pass than he might have cared to believe last...
...door of the Allentown plant. Mr. Kelley presented the superintendent, a Pennsylvania Dutchman named Fenstermacher, with a formal notice from Mr. Beamish. Superintendent Fenstermacher gave a guttural gasp. The notice read: "I assume that a theoretical breakdown of considerable magnitude has taken place. ..." With Allentown plunged into theoretical darkness, demand was made that the plant produce power immediately. There were only five men in the plant and the nearest skilled help was 200 miles away in Williamsport. Superintendent Fenstermacher sent a frantic call to his company's 23-story Allentown office building. Vice President N. S. Reinicker hurried over...
...growing demand of a considerable part of the student body for instruction in the literary, artistic, and creative aspects of the drama, and the University policy of strictly theoretical training can be reconciled by a general broadening of the scope of the study in the drama. This done, Harvard may well resume its old position as one of the foremost theatrical colleges in the country...