Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Daley voiced this truth in an article in the New York World. "Football," he said, 'with its close personal contact, keen strategy, sharp initiative and demand for high courage, develops the qualities which make good soldiers. The very character of the game precludes a man's being anything but a strong, virile, big-hearted American...
With the great extension of state functions during the last fifty years has come an ever-increasing need for efficient administration and clean politics. This demand has not been adequately answered. Our city governments, with a few notable exceptions, have drifted farther and farther from political decency, and the national administration is too often wrapt up in a maze of red tape...
...demand for the removal from office of Immigration Inspector Henry J. Skeffington is but a natural result of a steadily growing intolerable state of affairs. The government officials, the country at large, and the press seem possessed with a fear of a "red revolution" an impossible and entirely remote contingency in this country. Anything liberal, or to the slightest degree unconventional in political and industrial theory, is being branded as revolutionary. Doubtless in times of over-fast development there are very real dangers incurred by the idle patter of "parlor bolshevists." But in times of reaction from liberalism such...
...another great renaissance of education," he said, "and we should turn to drama and demand that it should do its part. There is a small amount of good acting and a large amount of preposterously bad acting at present. The tradition of acting is broken, the old skill has departed and the art has declined. Drama will never really be able to contribute to the enjoyment of life until this old spirit is revived...
...drive for a clubhouse is being made in response to a demand on the part of many enlisted men for a place where they will be able to meet and talk with their old comrades of the trenches. Committees have been formed from the personnel of the 26th Division, both officers and men, to plan and carry through a Y. D. offensive...