Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Commons. In its boxlike wooden hall arose a Scotsman from the banks of Clyde, John McGovern. "The sentence on those four lay preachers," cried he, white-lipped, "was cowardly and brutal!" Turning upon William Adamson, Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr. McGovern said: "I demand that the Government act to set these preachers free." Put off with an assurance that the Government was "investigating," Clydesider McGovern would not subside or sit down. "I demand Justice!" he kept shouting...
Sternly Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy of the House of Commons demanded that Scot McGovern come to order. But he stood his ground: "It was no crime for those four good men to go out on the green and preach! I demand Justice...
...rejoicers at what President Hoover proposed.* Shanghai bankers said that the Hoover postponement would raise the price of silver, help to raise China's pitifully sunk silver-standard currency. Their theory: postponing will ''improve world trade." In this improvement China will share. More trade with China will increase the demand for silver in which she deals. In Shanghai the price of silver upped suddenly, fantastically some...
...candidates nominated throughout Spain last week "less than 20 are Monarchists" according to an Exchange Telegraph. Thus the new Parliament was expected to draft a Republican Constitution for Spain. But furious fights loom as to the character of the new Republic. Shall it be, as Catalonians and Basques demand, a union of federated states like the U. S. and Germany? Or shall it be, as central and southern Spaniards insist, a republic like France, highly centralized, composed not of sovereign states but of subordinate provinces...
...United Press, impressed by the national demand for the story, set out to get all they could of it. Believing that reporters on the case were using wrong strategy, they simply asked for, and with the immediately parents. obtained, a They won private Faithfull's interview confidence, persuaded him that a full explanation of Starr's makeup would mitigate the impression of promiscuity which had gone forth. The result, an "exclusive" for the U. P., was the full details of how the girl had been induced to unnatural sexual antics at the age of eleven by the elderly...