Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American music as differentiated from the purely classical product or that of the "Jazz Age," is, he pointed out, now receiving the recognition of intelligent audiences in addition to that of the bourgeois following. Intelligent audiences demand intelligent and gifted entertainers, a fact which naturally gives the well-educated college graduate an advantage over the musician risen from the ranks...
...Anxious to hold Bonus enthusiasm in check, the President made public a 1,150-word letter he had written to the commander of an American Legion Post in Texas. Without at any point flatly rejecting the Legion's demand for immediate payment of the Bonus, he explained in detail just why that demand amounted to holding up the U. S. Treasury for $2,320,000,000 over and above the Bonus originally voted to veterans by Congress...
Floods. "Floods pay no attention to political jurisdictions. Any coordinated system of control will demand the co-operation of neighboring States with each other as well as the cooperation of States with the Federal Government. ... It is suggested that the Federal Government might pay 30% of the cost of labor and materials for projects of chief benefit only to local communities; a larger proportion as the measurable general benefits increased; and 100% of the construction cost when the benefits to be derived were ... a national affair...
Excluding the earnings under the temporary student employment plan, the total amount of aid amounted to about one sixth of the amount received in tuition. Although the demand on the various aid funds in general continued to be heavy, the number of students who had to withdraw for financial reasons was no greater than in normal years...
...because he is human. Whoever gossips about a woman is vulgar and mean, and whoever thinks of the King as other than a ruler is out of order. Dabbling in gossip is unworthy of statesmen and characteristic of knaves and servants. All we have a right to demand of the King is that he know thoroughly the needs of the country. It is false doctrine to assert that the King should not even love someone who is helpful and devoted...