Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eyes of the Nation. Last week the Texas Legislature met. To it Governor Sterling sent a special message in which he said: "The farmers have risen in their distress and lifted their voices in the most widespread and concerted demand that has moved them during modern years. . . . Whether the situation can be reme died by legislation remains to be determined. The hopes and prayers of Texas are that it can. . . . These are abnormal, parlous times. . . . The eyes of the nation are upon us, watching and hoping for us to raise a torch that will light the way for the Southland...
...Gene Geary sent to an asylum instead of hanged. For Capone Gangsters Scalise and Anselmi, accused of killing two policemen, he won acquittal with the plea that they were privileged to defend themselves even against officers of the law. Since his association with Capone he has become much in demand, never takes a case for less than...
...question of how to improve the nursing business occupied the directorate of the American Nurses' Association who met in Manhattan last week. The Association has a membership of 105,000 graduate nurses. They demand stabilization of their haphazard, part-time employment...
...Fund Committee. His job was to find out what Bishop Cannon had done with almost $100,000 contributed for Democratic use in Virginia against Alfred Emanuel Smith in the 1928 campaign. The Bishop had juggled his accounts beyond all senatorial comprehension and then successfully defied the Committee's demand for an explanation under the Corrupt Practices Act. What Investigator Manly was principally trying to trace through a jungle of bank trans actions was $65,300 contributed by Edwin Cornell Jameson, New York insurance man (TIME, April 28, 1930 et seq.). Of this sum Bishop Cannon had failed to account...
...Most famed members: Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Jacob Raskob, Senators Thomas James Walsh of Montana and David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, Manhattan Contractor William F. Kenny, great & good friend of "Al" Smith. Insurance at low rates is available to every Knight. The order has an elaborate system of initiations, demands a certain secrecy "unless the interests of State or Church demand" otherwise. Because of this, many ignorant people hate and fear the K. of C. as a subversive organization, believe implicitly in a famed, tingling "great and fake oath" which, they think, binds the Knights to battle Protestantism. In reality...