Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view of this increasing surplus, the President in a letter accompanying the budget urged reduction of taxes, and added: "I am not unmindful of the demand for adjusted compensation for soldiers of the World War, which would include among its beneficiaries the able-bodied of our veterans as well as the disabled. I question if there is any sound reason for such a measure. The country is prosperous and remunerative employment is available for the able-bodied veterans as well as for other citizens. . . . The Government has no money to distribute to any class of its citizens that it does...
Under the heading mandatory system the Council will also consider U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes' demand for equal opportunities for the U. S. in mandated areas. One of the great problems which the mandatory system has created is the indefinite character of the mandates themselves. Capitalists have hesitated to invest much money in the areas fearing the nonpermanence of the system...
...neurosis? For there seems to be not a page in this collection of stories to which one can return with admiration and warmth, saying, "Here is good writing! Here the austerity of loveliness has been touched, here is a paragraph of music and mystery!" Perhaps there is no demand for these articles in the trade today. True, we find Mr. Burke babbling in a slum story of "beauty gone astray", but one easily sees what he means, and there's an end to that...
...still find a big demand for musical shows of the 'Mary' type. I took a long chance with 'Mary' type. I took a long chance with 'Mary', and it brought people to the theatre who hadn't been for years. It created a popular demand. 'The O'Brien Girl', 'Nellie Kelly', and 'Rosie O'Reilly' followed up that demand. The big fault with musical shows is that after a long run the actors become puppets. They just go through the motions. I remember how I felt after I had played 102 weeks in 'Little Johnny Jones'. The very sound...
...sincere in these strikes", he said. "The people insist that the workers refrain from striking in order that the supply of fuel and food may not be cut off, but at the same time do nothing to relieve the conditions against which they are striking. In effect, they demand that the workers and their children continue to be underfed and ill-housed, in order that their own babies may not lack milk for a single...