Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticise Yale's action as surreptitiously cheating on the eligibility agreement or to demand that Yale give up fall makeup exams is simply to overlook the facts of the case...
...summer vacation in which there is no summer school as a part of her whole scholastic schedule, has long used it, and to seize upon it in the present case as a device merely for improving the football team is to be as blind to the facts as the demand that it be abolished is presumptuous. When undergraduates or alumni of Harvard are willing to consider a university as cheating on an agreement merely because it fails to reorganize its academic program so that a competitor, functioning under a different educational system entirely, may be at less a disadvantage, then...
Bolder was the overlapping American Veterans Association, longtime foe of the Bonus. In a full-page Cleveland Plain Dealer advertisement addressed to the Legion, it roared: "Already the demand has been made in several quarters for pensions for all World War Veterans without regard to length of service, need or disability. We will oppose this demand with every resource at our command. We invite your support in this fight, and urge that your convention declare to the public in unmistakable language where the American Legion stands on this issue...
...League game. Louisville's famed Hillerich & Bradsby factory, which makes 95% of organized baseball's bats, has this summer been turning out 1,600 more a month than usual. Upshot of the exhibition baseball game at the Olympic Games in Berlin (TIME, Aug. 24) has been increased demand for baseball paraphernalia from India, China, England and South Africa...
...unprecedented demand for seats that made it seem probable that all games in this year's World Series would be sellouts, the one that got most attention last week came from the White House. First Presidential junket to the World Series since Herbert Hoover was roundly booed at Philadelphia in 1931 was scheduled for the third game, the first in the Yankee Stadium...