Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that five out of five in Boston deserve the scarlet letter, one should continue to believe that it is in precisely eighth place and no higher. For the city fathers to keep clapping hands over their rubrous noses and shouting their innocence before the Lord is ridiculous. They should demand that only those without sin themselves should cast boulders in their direction, and then, certainly then, martyrdom might be averted...
...more shakeups, further reorganizations, in the enforcement service; of the President's putting U. S. district attorneys on their mettle. Senator Sheppard of Texas, author of the 18th Amendment, dusted off his bill to make liquor-buyers as culpable as bootleggers. Senator Harris prepared to renew his demand to double enforcement appropriations, bringing them up to 30 millions per year. Dry Senator Norris of Nebraska entered the general excitement by joining Senator Brookhart of Iowa in a loud demand for Secretary Mellon's resignation...
Sued for Libel. Collier's Weekly; by onetime District Prohibition Administrator F. H. McLenahan; at Denver. The charge: that "false and derogatory" statements were made about him in the Dec. 28, 1928, issue of the magazine. His demand: $100,000 damages. The article, "Sugar Moon," said that 2,000 bootleggers thrive in Denver, sell whiskey made from sugar beets...