Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House began the debate. Within minutes the floor was in an uproar as most of the members began talking or clamoring for recognition at the same time. At one point Missouri Republican Dewey Short leaped to his feet and shouted that the disorder was ''absolutely disgraceful. I demand quiet!" Few heard his cry. and fewer heeded it. It was soon obvious that election-year pressures were more powerful than sound legislative judgment...
Bourguiba has annoyed the French lately by insisting that neighboring Algeria, too, should receive its independence. In Paris Bourguiba will demand for his own country several things that the French are disinclined to grant: "full and sole responsibility" for Tunisia's internal order, complete control of its own diplomatic service. Also, though Bourguiba concedes that Tunisia is too poor to pay for its own defense and can neither live or defend itself without French help, he strongly objects to a French-led Tunisian army patterned on the Arab Legion in Jordan...
...next night every House is planning a dance of some kind. Lowell will put down a floor in the court yard for an open air dance. Kirkland will demand costumes for a masquerade Saturday. A cabaret will give Dunster a French touch with small tables placed about the rooms. Students will be allowed to bring drinks. Leverett, Adams, Dudley, Winthrop, and Eliot will hold to convention with formal dances Saturday...
Economics 107, now a full course on consumption, distribution, and prices, will be divided into two half-courses next year. Economics 107a, in the fall term, will deal with consumer demand, and Economics 107b in spring will cover distribution. Richard H. Holton, assistant professor of Economics, who now teaches the full course, will teach both subjects next year...
Because his Simmons fiancee has an exam today and can't appear with him as the rules demand, Robert A. Bowman '56 will forfeit a chance to win a honeymoon for them on CBS's "Big Surprise" this afternoon in New York...