Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board election but Teamster Beck, having only a handful of warehousemen signed up, flatly refused. "This," cried he, "is a showdown fight. We'll close every port on the Pacific Coast where warehousemen are not teamsters," "These gentlemen," rasped Longshoreman Bridges, "not only want a labor war but demand...
...Foreign Wars, older brother of the American Legion, was assembled for its 38th encampment. For the first time since the World War the aging veterans who had tramped the plains of northern China found themselves in the V. F. W. spotlight. Their listeners were attentive, their pictures in demand for the convention's timely slogan was: PEACE FOR AMERICA...
...Republic, encamped last week in Madison, Wis. with only 200 oldsters to answer the roll call, doubts that pensions for World War veterans wdll follow the Bonus inevitably. For the V. F. W. the campaign opened with instructions for its able Washington Lobbyist, Millard W. Rice, to demand: 1) pensions or public jobs for every World War veteran, and 2) revision of the Social Security Act so that unemployable Foreign War Veterans can start drawing old-age pensions at 50 instead...
...Statesman Paderewski had conferred in Switzerland with Witos and other opponents of the military "Colonels' clique" that dominates Warsaw, immediately suppressed every Warsaw paper that attempted to print the Paderewski manifesto (which compelled the secret circulation of the manifesto hand-to-hand), and replied to Paderewski's demand for the cessation of reprisals against the Peasant Party with a new crop of arrests...
...York Reserve Bank's action were two-to forestall a rise in the current low open market money rates, and, more important, to persuade banks to borrow from the Federal Reserve rather than sell large holdings of Government bonds as they have been doing lately to meet increased demand for commercial loans. As a device to end bond selling the reduction of the discount rate was not immediately successful. Still under pressure, ''Governments" continued to slump as much as half a point...