Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...owners cannot operate the workers will," says W. J. Kelly, National Secretary-Treasurer of the Amalgamated Iron Workers of America. This organization has decided to make a demand upon owners of plants, now idle, to turn them over to the workers so they may demonstrate the value of such action. This demand is the result of wide unemployment and wage reductions among the metal workers, which according to Mr. Kelly is without reason...
...type. Others have gone into industry as consulting chemists and geologists, or into the newer fields of industrial research. Still others will be found in literary work or social service. With the increasing recognition of the need of experts in American life, the field has greatly broadened and the demand for highly trained specialists has grown much faster than the supply. A university president once remarked that what we need is not narrow men but broad men sharpened to a point. That is the kind of men the Graduate School seeks to supply...
There have been many suggestions made as to some remedy for this situation. Postponement of the day for payment of the taxes; the demand that inventory losses be considered in abatement of profits; the proposal of a final-sales tax; these are some of the plans mentioned at the hearing of the Ways and Means Committee of the House. Some change is assuredly needed. It must be one which will reduce the amount of the burden now placed upon the heads of the comparatively few, and distribute it in smaller quantities to be shared more uniformly by the many...
...discussion of such other matters as efficiency, genius, reconstruction, bolshevism, and what not. All this is both to say that we have here a volume of essays in the best tradition, marked by sympathy, quiet humor, and keen judgment, expressed in a style as nearly perfect as one could demand. "Every Man's Natural Desire" and "The Hibernation of Genius" are about as firm as anything we have in the field of English essays...
...President of the Senior Class should Dumediately demand the resignation of the entire committee and place the next class election in the hands of competent...