Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eugene Nortz once held $106,300 of U. S. certificates in which the Treasury promised to pay the bearer on demand in good old-value gold coin. Mr. Nortz was compelled by Presidential order to turn his certificates in and take devalued dollars. So he sued the Government in the Court of Claims which put the case up to the Supreme Court...
...Demands. Last week Lobbyist Taylor was demanding some $2,000,000,000 from the U. S. on the strength of a resolution adopted by the Legion convention in Miami last November. Just prior to that meeting President Roosevelt, in a speech at Roanoke, had called attention to the fact that Legionaries have greater earning power than the average citizen (an indiscreet admission by the American Legion Weekly). Hence, by inference they needed no Bonus. Insulted, the Legionaries at Miami promptly made an outright demand for immediate payment of their Bonus in cash. To get immediate action they elected Frank Nicholas...
...electrified the courtroom with news that was to many indeed new: "Hauptmann . . . has got this ladder right around his neck. . . . One rung of that ladder, one side of that ladder comes right from his attic, put on there with his tools, and we will prove it to you! . . . We demand the penalty of murder in the first degree...
...counter to the interests of France. "Italy has no future in the west and north!" he cried. "Her future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa. The vast resources of Asia must be valorized, and Africa must be brought within the orbit of civilization. . . . We demand that the nations which have already arrived in Africa do not block at every step Italian expansion...
...first-run theatres by no means indicates that they are obsolete. A dozen producing companies subsist upon profits from such pictures. B 'n' B, Ambassador, Exploitation, Golden State, Willis Kent, Principal, Stage & Screen, William Steiner and Superior together have 80 on their 1934-35 schedules. Less in demand west of the Mississippi. Westerns are greedily patronized in the South. They are particularly popular in Washington, D. C. Outstanding producer of Westerns, Monogram will make eight this year, 16 next-mostly on a ranch belonging to Trem Carr, the studio's production chief. Columbia will this year make...