Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scorn were the feverish efforts of other sleuths to solve the case by strong-arm methods. To ask that the President declare now whether he will or will not run again, said he, is as crude as the third degree; in fact, it is "no more than a blunt demand that Mr. Roosevelt give himself up and confess." Nor did Detective Lippmann have much esteem for the political sleuths who have followed President Roosevelt's actions, studied his speeches, questioned his associates, interviewed his followers, looked for clues at press conferences. "Mr. Roosevelt," he observed, "is too smart...
...This is my last demand...
...holders of the B. & M.'s $103,833,000 first mortgage bonds swap each dollar for 50? of 20-year 4% first mortgage bonds (or cash, if they demand it), 50? of 30-year bonds to pay 4% when it is earned...
...Issue enough more first mortgage bonds to pay off $5,500,000 of bank loans plus $14,750,000 owed RFC, and raise up to $26,000,000 cash for paying off if necessary. (Obviously if more than 50% of the bondholders demand cash the plan falls through...
...conclusions of this sort of reasoning can be criticized on two grounds. First, the demand for expressions of opinion only in the class-room is a direct contradiction of a basic tenet of American education--objectivity. Such interpretation in education can be justified only by assuming that all the facts about the war have been proved, which is not the case. Then, too, school-boy minds are very easily swayed; the teacher's words are the gospel truth. Certainly a teacher has a right to present his interpretation of the facts. But he must not substitute this interpretation...