Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have sought to put forward the rule of fair play in finance and industry." Opponents: ". . . There are a few among us who would still go back. These few offer no substitute for the gains already made, nor any hope for making future gains for human happiness. They loudly assert that individual liberty is being restricted by government, but when they are asked what individual liberties they have lost, they are put to it to answer...
...phases of life today." I strenuously disagree. It seems to me that modern women who go in for "all phases of life day must necessarily neglect the care of their children and the management of their homes. I think it is no reflection on the feminine mind to assert that it doesn't logically absorb facts about government and economics. If women would spend more time in the study of running a home and less in trying to learn all about world affairs, I think we would have a better country...
...present there seem to be only two possible solutions to the problem. Either the Engineering School must improve or it must be discontinued. Graduates assert that there is very little left in the present curriculum to attract men to the School. They claim that Professor Sauveur is the only redeeming feature of the Metallurgy department and that he will soon be forced by age to retire. The presence of the Institute of Technology in the same city should either force the discontinuance of the school or stimulate it to improvement...
...list constitutes a basis for punishment of the Democrats who tried to assert their independence and vote as their consciences dictated, something that is supposed to be the essence of representative Government under the American system...
...National Government has taken over duties and powers heretofore reserved to the states. Many states, happily not our own, found themselves helpless to hope with their relief needs. For this season, they cried out in desperation or federal assistance. Were all the takes like Massachusetts, I venture to assert that no such abnormal bureaucracy as now exists in Washington would have been necessary. But many states are virtually bankrupt, and the funds now being dispensed by the National Government for the rehabilitation of other parts of the country come largely from the pocket-books of the taxpayers and wage-earners...