Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five formal dinners and five formal receptions are the toll of ceremonial entertainment which custom and etiquet demand of a President. Last week President Roosevelt began his seasonal duty, to end only with Lent. The new White House china was not yet ready, but the old White House wine glasses were polished up and brought out for the first time since before Prohibition. Two kinds of light domestic wine were served. The occasion was the Cabinet Dinner but this year it became the Cabinet & Alphabet dinner and the State Department's division of protocol made social history by deciding...
...Republic, many another steelmaster. Also on hand were Michael F. Tighe of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers and William Green of the American Federation of Labor. They were all at the White House to report a deadlock over steel labor peace. The sticking point: Labor's demand that if a majority in a steel plant voted for the A. F. of L. union, the union should then represent all employes. The President told them to be good boys and try again, ordered the Steel Labor Relations Board to "continue its good offices...
...Dawes addressed 800 lunching Chicago businessmen on "The Coming Recovery in Durable Goods and the End of the Depression." On the wall were charts of the depressions of 1873 and 1893. These the onetime Vice President of the U. S. used to illustrate his contention that a pent-up demand for the products of heavy industry had in both cases burst forth precisely five years and six months after the first stockmarket crash. Barked the good General: "The demand for durable goods . . . in a Depression, while it always rises last, always rises fastest. Accordingly, I suggest that not later than...
...London Naval Parleys were called for the express purpose of limiting naval armaments, and, by that method, to attain a certain measure of world security. A brief review of the results of the parleys will show that, Japan demanding equality, the United States and Britain standing stone-wall against such a demand in favor of the old 5-5-3 ratio, not even a start was made in the way of co-operative limitation and the conference adjourned a failure. This failure the Americans attributed to the Japanese; the Japanese, on the other hand, charge it to the Americans...
...view of this, let us realistically look at the situation as it is. We can not disregard the fact that Japan has grown worthy of equality, that the entire structure of her foreign policy rests upon this assumption. And to her demand for equality, Japan has convincingly demonstrated the solidity of her stand. There is no doubt. She has refused to consider any plan for the limitation of armaments which predicates inequality, and already promises to toss over the Washington Treaty. By this time, it has further become very plain that the United States have nothing now to lose...