Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike continuing to provide most fireworks. A printers' strike stopped Indianapolis' newspaper presses for over 24 hours. Eleven nearby towns were darkened and service on three interurban lines halted when the Indiana Railroad's shop men and powerhouse walked out. Dead locked with C.I.O. over a demand for more pay, managers of twelve of the big gest downtown department and 5? & 10? stores in Providence moved to forestall sit-downs by suddenly shutting up shop at the height of Saturday and pre-Easter buying, locking out their 5,000 employes...
...exercised a right possessed by every British subject after a decree nisi of divorce has been granted in the Kingdom, namely the right at any time in the following six months to tip off the King's Proctor that there is something fishy about the case and demand that the Attorney General reopen it with a view to having the final decree of divorce blocked, thus leaving husband and wife united in what witty A. P. Herbert, M. P.. made the title of a divorce novel - Holy Deadlock...
...recommending the compulsory athletic fee the Council laid plank number two in the bridge that will lead Harvard over the deep and horrid chasm in whose gloomy depths so many other colleges lie groaning. President Conant's demand for an endowment fund started the bridge from one side and the Council has laid the foundations from the other--only by a strong intra-mural program, self-sufficing and self-supporting, can athletics be rigorously bent to meet the needs of every student and the chasm successfully avoided...
...Demand for such a program exists, the Committee feels, among those who do not wish to compete in the regular Freshman sports, but who do desire some form of competitive athletics, and the plan of having the teams come from the dormitories, it is felt, will stimulate a competitive spirit...
...side, French New Deal persecution of gold hoarders was dropped; they were enabled, without giving even their names, to get full value for their gold at the Bank of France (i. e., a "40% profit" in devalued francs) and to buy bonds payable in francs, dollars or sterling upon demand; finally Finance Minister Auriol inspired confidence by giving up his stranglehold on the French currency exchange control fund and this will be managed by a new committee, one of which is Professor Charles Rist, long-time Bank of France executive and about as radical as Virginia's Carter Glass...