Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreign garrisons are cut to a "dangerously low limit." The regular Army at home is strained by the effort to furnish instruction to civilian training camps. "As a result the morale of the regular Army . . is below what we should demand...
...Democrats, might, by alliance with Republican insurgents, elect their own men to official places, but this is not their plan, for they would rather make the Republicans assume full responsibility for the next Congress. The Democrats will, however, demand greater representation on committees because the Republican majorities are reduced in the new Congress...
...which we occupy. As long as Germany does not show herself pacific, we will remain on our guard. As long as the Treaty has not been entirely fulfilled, we will not abandon the left bank of the Rhine. . . . We would have liked to have had the conference of Ambassadors demand at once either extradition of the Crown Prince as one of the War guilty, or his banishment. The reëstablishment of the Hohenzollerns on the throne would be a menace to European peace." (The whole Chamber, including the Communists, cheered this pronouncement. ) "Your unanimous agreement against the return...
...Volumes on the Shelves Demand Consideration...
Presumably under considerable pressure from the agricultural sections, Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture demanded that Swift & Co., the Wilson Packing Co. and the Cudahy Packing Co. give federal auditors full access to their accounts, records, documents. The demand was made for the express purpose of determining how far the companies are buyers and sellers of live stock and products manufactured from live stock, how far they are engaged in interstate commerce, and to audit figures previously submitted to the Government to determine if they are correct...