Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What is the use?" he sobbed. "We have tried to pull our country up to the standard of others so that we could look at other nations with a feeling of equality and rightly demand mutual respect. Now it appears that all these efforts are coming to naught...
...Diff") Diffendorfer and Dr. William Edward Shaw of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions told the Chicago meeting that Methodist missionaries "have agreed that no personal or property damage that may be incurred by their presence in China is to be made a cause for war threat or indemnity demand...
...declared that the delay is caused by the distance the chasers must go, and not, as the Monthly claimed, by lack of enough workers to meet the demand...
...appeal to the college undergraduates of the Commonwealth for safe and sane driving on the roads, Governor Hurley issued a statement last week that sounded off once again the everpresent need for careful automobiling. The demand which the Governor made, namely that the youth of the community realize the responsibilities they assume the minute they sit down at the wheel, is an eminently practical one, especially in view of the terrific toll that automobiles take each year on our population...
Meantime in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Junk Peddlers' Union, with 150 members who would like to join C. I. O. but say they cannot afford the dues, donated $50 to the Chicago strike, prepared to demand that the city keep children and organized charities from cutting in on their business. Said Harry Morgenstein, the union's business agent: "If the country doesn't want the families of about 300 junk collectors on relief, something will have to be done to stop this unfair competition from organizations like the Salvation Army...