Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holcombe declared that it isn't possible for government to appease business, and even if it were possible, it isn't desirable. These desiring a change of government will persuade business to demand a change of government, and business will do it rather than be "appeased." Appeasement would be undesirable, since it would mean the beginning of a period of fatal speculative activity...
...peak of his feats is requesting somebody from the audience to pick five notes--any five notes on the piano--which he will weave into an original melody, and at further demand, play that melody in the style of Mozart, Bach, Gershwin, or anybody else handy. Try cooking up a melody sometime out of just a few notes with no preconceived notion of how they should fall, and Templeton's things become just a little baffling...
...wisely on the art of the Italian Renaissance attempt, quite unsuccessfully, to cope with some of the more extreme forms of modernism; I concluded that his powers of connoisseurship were not translatable into the present tense. Not the least "dangerous" thing about the arts in our time is their demand that we see in them something more than the application of age-old principles to now materials, their claim that the new forms must inevitably change old conceptions of what constitutes "beauty", what constitutes indeed a work of art. Since it is quite probable that there are as many masterpieces...
...boasted that he could get 10,000 persons to demand the Russian Fellowship for Hicks but said he would probably limit the number to 500. At first Dorgan made no mention of the petition, merely inquiring if the signers of the petition here urging Hicks' retention on the Faculty were American...
...operation." It was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, famed Kansas "rejuvenator", who for the fourth time was suing Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's publication Hygeia. Dr. Fishbein, who at the moment had his back turned on Plaintiff Brinkley, appeared unconcerned over Brinkley's demand for $250,000. Last year in Hygeia Dr. Fishbein described Brinkley as a "quack" and a "charlatan". Dr. Brinkley claimed that these statements were libelous, that as a result his annual income fell from...