Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fascist, De Gaulle is beyond question an authoritarian prepared to demand vast emergency powers as Franklin Roosevelt once did. He has insisted that he would never again accept a ''temporary magistrature." Before he would consent to return to power, the National Assembly would have to agree to send itself on "permanent vacation," give De Gaulle a free hand until a new French constitution could be written. Under the new constitution, as De Gaulle envisages it, France would no longer be ruled by a single house of Parliament. (The French Senate is as meaningless as Britain's House...
...shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched in dismay as their fellow rail workers coolly crossed picket lines and kept the trains running on time. After three days, the firemen blew a whistle on the strike. The ailing U.S. railroads (see BUSINESS), which in 1956 withdrew a demand for the right to drop firemen so that the battle could be fought out in Canada, may be expected to follow C.P.R.'s lead when the union contract runs...
...spokesman noted that striking workers in other trades had all accepted compromise measures. The carpenters alone have been sticking to their "unreasonable" demand for two 25-cent wage hikes in a two-year period...
...President Eisenhower's firm support, sees his plan as the only way to keep on good terms with metal-exporting allies, who would be badly hurt by tariffs, while still giving support to hard-pressed domestic mining industries, which have been hit by imports and decreasing demand. Congressmen from Western mining states, who have been agitating for tariff boosts, seem ready to support some form of the Seaton plan, are expected to go alorg with the Administration's request for extension of reciprocal trade. Said Nevada's Senator George Malone of the Seaton proposal: "I think...
From Teheran to Texas, many an oilman grumbled that the new deals would inspire other oil-rich Middle Eastern countries to cancel their present fifty-fifty deals and demand sweeter contracts. But calmer leaders in the industry brushed such remarks aside. Said Howard Page, Middle East boss for Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey): "Some oilmen say that it is immoral or something to bid in a certain way. Baloney! I certainly do not want anyone to tell...