Word: demands
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Hasite said in a letter to George A. Buttrick, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Chairman of the Phillips Brooks House committee, that he has 'reluctantly decided my final year of preparation for the ministry must demand my full time and attention." The graduate secretary is currently in his second year at the Episcopal Theological School...
...last resort," says the report, paraphrasing Churchill, "world peace depended on the friendship and cooperation of the three governments, but . . . they were committing an injustice if reservation were not made for free statement . . . by small countries." Of course, if China should demand the return of Hong Kong, there could be a full discussion...
...Stalin passed down a nyet until he had made sure of his territorial ambitions in the Far East. These were finally laid out in full detail and traced on a map by Stalin in a conversation with Ambassador Harriman on Dec. 14, 1944. Items on the Kremlin's demand list: "return" to Russia of Japan's Kurils and southern Sakhalin; leases on Manchuria's Port Arthur and Dairen, plus operating rights on the Manchurian railways; China's surrender of its claims to Sovietized Outer Mongolia...
...control of a country Matyas Rakosi once wrote, is to demand a little more each day, like cutting up a salami, thin slice after thin slice." Rakosalami tactics made Hungary one of the most useful of Soviet satellites. Slice by slice, Hungarian agricultural productivity was cut down to make way for industrial projects. Forced collectivization of farmlands drove farm workers into the factories, and the fertile country, once one of Europe's breadbaskets, had to import grain. But Hungarian steel and aluminum fattened the Soviet war potential and bulletheaded Boss Rakosi was so well regarded in Moscow that...
...Side. Then the bankers heard an opposite view. George C. Smith, economist for the F. W. Dodge Corp., said that the low rate of new-family formation reflects the Depression's low birth rate, predicted that the new-family-formation rate will soon pick up and keep the demand for new housing at upwards 1,000,000 yearly for the next five years. Said Smith: "I would expect to find some local problems, some temporary gluts and vacancies . . . But I don't believe, and I can't find any other construction economist who believes, that...