Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support he was looking for, but Republican Congressman Robert Michel of hard-hit Peoria (farm machinery) changed his mind, said he would vote against an immediate cut. Said Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills: "Everyone would welcome a tax cut, of course, but I haven't detected any great demand." Added Nebraska's Arthur Lewis Miller: "I was against a tax cut before I came home. I was glad to see the voters had about the same thinking; it gives me a little more backbone." A nose count of U.S. Senators showed that 70 would vote "no" on an immediate...
...decision of the Committee on Scholarships and Financial Aid to demand only satisfactory academic standings from scholarship holders was one of the most encouraging Administration actions in recent years. However, another part of the scholarship revision also deserves commendation. The newly allotted annual allowance of $2600 instead of $2250 in estimating college expenses helps remedy a long-standing need...
...Department of Music has submitted to the Committee on Educational Policy plans for 11 new courses, which it intends to offer in the next two years, it was learned yesterday. In response to student demand, three of them are specifically designed for the non-concentrator...
...Harvard, 45 of his friends, on the faculties of many universities, prepared erudite essays for a congratulatory volume. He was not only popular with scholars, however. Kittredge had so large a Boston following that when it was announced that he would give the Lowell Institute lectures for 1934, the demand for tickets was so great that he gave each lecture twice, in the afternoon and in the evening...
DIAMOND MARKET is slumping to lowest point in 3½ years. First-quarter sales by De Beers, which controls world supply, totaled only $42.8 million v. $49.7 million in same 1957 period. Biggest drop-off came in automakers' demand for industrial stones, but gem demand also fell...