Word: demanding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American people would not be disposed to place an impossible burden upon their debtors but are nevertheless in a just position to ask that substantial sacrifices be made to meet these debts." In short, the President stands where Congress stands, ready to demand debt payment, but leaving the amounts open to negotiation...
...stood, make it hard for a child born abroad of two U. S. parents to keep its U. S. citizenship. Instead of vetoing the bill the President requested Congress to recall and amend it. The bill's sponsors, Representative Dickstein and Senator Copeland, grumbling at the demand for a change, went to the White House, found that the State Department had found a real flaw. They took the measure back to the Capitol, got Congress to accept a four-word amendment, and two days later the President blessed it with his signature. ¶Under special powers granted...
...idea from the Yanqui plan organized by the United States Caudillo Francisco Roosevelt. . . . It's a great idea, supply and demand, and it saved us from closing shop. When a man called Francisco Roosevelt can do it, so can a man called Francisco Gomez...
...patients declare they get better service from the nurse who has shorter hours; doctors and hospital authorities are pleased once the change has gone into effect. Results in spreading work are gratifying. Not only is the 24-hour period divided among three instead of two nurses, but a greater demand for single periods of eight hours results from the fact that shorter units of nursing service are available...
Darrow Criticism: Small producers were not allowed to share in making the code. Large producers make small exhibitors agree to take short films and newsreels in order to get the feature pictures from which most profits are made. Large producers demand a big share of small exhibitors' gross receipts, sometimes 35% for popular pictures, and dictate the days on which pictures shall be shown. The code gives distributors the right to fix admission prices. Many independent theatres cannot get popular pictures until their competitors have largely exhausted such pictures' drawing powers...