Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want a union with Bulgaria," the demonstrators shouted...
...held a mass meeting last week in White Plains to protest the cost of their State Government. One speaker suggested that the Republican Legislature adopt a greatly reduced budget, let Democratic Governor Lehman veto it if he dare. State Senator Pliny W. Williamson (Republican) expostulated: "You wouldn't want the courts and State institutions and offices closed for lack of funds, would...
...Furthermore, the signing of such a treaty was likely so to incense the Führer that, instead of asking merely for the return of the Free City of Danzig and a road across the Polish Corridor as he is now doing, Aggrandizer Hitler would raise the ante and want Polish Silesia, a slice of the Polish Ukraine, the Corridor in toto...
...adolescent, the whole audience sang Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Schubert's Ave Maria and a brand-new Philadelphia Youth Song to music by Sibelius. Maestro Stokowski called for more jive: "Let the walls rock and the ceiling move up and down," he cried. "I want to see that chandelier agitated by its emotion...
Under the direction of a young SEC lawyer named Peter H. ("Handyman") Nehemkis Jr., surveys will be made in 561 towns and cities. SEC itself will concentrate on ten "representative" cities.* Already well under way, the job is to be finished by June 1. Said Jerome Frank: "We want to drench ourselves in facts." A sample question small businessmen will be asked: What per cent of your inventories have you borrowed against...