Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silk manufacturer contributed these phrases: "We have a tremendous reservoir of labor in this country. We used to say, 'Let George do it.' Now we say, 'Let Giovanni do it.' We can do it ourselves. Those who demand an unlimited labor supply have upon them the burden of proof not only that they need labor but that they need to get it outside the country." ¶ A member of the Liberal Immigration League declared that we need illiterates "to fill the places of Irish track walkers we have now raised to Congress...
Meanwhile, all Italy resounded with rumors as to the reasons which induced Signer Benito Mussolini to suspend the Parliamentary session. It was stated that the King had refused Mussolini's demand for an extension of his dictatorship. This rumor, as were most of the others, was speedily denied. Mussolini made a great secret of his future plans...
...jaws of a trap. The unwary passerby is almost irresistibly lured into its mellow interior, perhaps to while away a pleasant hour in contemplation of its variegated shelves, perhaps only to escape a sudden shower. There is so agreeable an absence of obligation. No one feels the least demand upon his purse when he enters a bookshop, any more than when he strays into a friend's library. He means only to "look around," feels a. certain pride in assuring the unobtrusive salesman that he is hardly even doing that...
...Rite in the South, declared that the present Congress cannot afford to sidetrack the bill. "The pressure ... is overwhelming. Every patriotic and almost every fraternal order is behind it. Churches indorse it. Teachers, schools and colleges, alumni associations and undergraduates are for it. Chambers of Commerce and civic organizations demand it. Parents want it. School organizations want it. Almost every-one who knows anything about it wants it. ... The time has come when the United States should do as much for education as it does for wheat and corn and pigs and cattle...
Apart from the considerations of health and income, however, there is a growing demand among women for birth control to enable them to space the number of children they desire at such intervals as will make life more livable and make possible better care of the fewer children. An exhaustive scientific study of the sex life of 1,000 normal and well- educated married women, made by Dr. Katharine B. Davis, of the Bureau of Social Hygiene, revealed the fact that 74% used contraceptive methods themselves and gave their approval to them. Economic and health reasons, and desire...