Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there seems to be much well founded opinion that he is), to reduce the surtaxes would be the best possible way of preparing for a bonus. He holds simply that to burden the rich beyond a certain point is also to burden the poor. Nevertheless, the insurgents in Congress demand that if there be a revision of income surtaxes it be upward instead of down, with excess profits taxes restored. They charge Secretary Mellon with favoritism towards the wealthy. It is probably true that Mr. Mellon does not understand the vote-getting value of the political slogan: " Soak the rich...
...response to a general demand from her mother's friends that some sort of a permanent record of her mother's life be given to the world, Miss Rachel Weigall has written a book* about Lady Rose Weigall. Lady Rose (who died in 1921) was the daughter of Lord and Lady Burghersh, afterwards the eleventh Earl and Countess of Westmoreland. She married Henry Weigall, D.L., J.P., artist...
...Excellency Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to Washington, speaking at the Institute of Politics, Williamstown, said that China had followed recent events in Turkey with great interest. Apparently, as a corollary, China will demand from the Powers a statement of conditions on which the Powers would be prepared to grant her complete independence and abandon the principle of extraterritoriality...
Further reasons why the War Department is little likely to heed the demand of the Philippine Independence Commission (TIME, Aug. 6) for the removal of Governor General Wood came to light. They have to do principally with Filipino finance. W. Cameron Forbes, speaking at the Williamstown Institute of Politics illuminated part of the situation. The rest was lit up by General Wood himself in a report just published...
Peace threatened. But it was a false alarm. Apparently the operators had misunderstood the miners. Attached to the check-off demand were provisions for full recognition of the United Mine Workers and a two-year wage contract. The operators assumed that in waiving the check-off demand the miners had waived these conditions, too. President Lewis of the miners said that when he waived the checkoff, he waived the checkoff, and nothing else. He further made it plain that when he asked the operators to stop checking off rent and supplies, from the miners' wages he did not mean...