Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boast to have gone to school with Mussolini, or to have shared a meal with him, or to have offered him a cigaret in some railway compartment. There are still too many people, who, in speaking of the "Duce," call him simply Benito. There are jar too many who assert to be on terms of intimacy with him. It is high time to declare before all the world that Benito does not exist any more. Today Mussolini must be known as the "Duce" and only as the "Duce." Nobody has any right to speak of him in the ordinary manner...
...there could have been few better choices. Even if the present publishers modestly assert that they bought a "forlorn hope" that had "no future whatsoever save what its new owners could make for it" it did survive all its misfortunes and is now a national byword when Franklin's inventions are superseded and his diplomacy almost forgotten. It is one of the few times that Fate has done really the appropriate thing. The man who was in some ways the most alive of all his great contemporaries is well fitted in such a living and dynamic memorial...
...people of other states are not hesitating to defend their position by means of high tariffs. It is time for the Empire to assert itself. This may sound curious from an old free trader like myself. But conditions have changed and the traditional free trade sentiment of the British public has changed with them. More iron is wanted in the soul of this country! We must have the courage to put a high tariff wall around the Empire...
...paradoxical. Speaking before the New York State Chamber of Commerce last week, that sapient layman, President Leonor Fresnel Loree of the Delaware & Hudson R. R., pointed out that the Navy's "natural home" is the ocean. Nor was it paradoxical for a railroader like Mr. Loree to assert that, besides another trans-Appalachian railroad line, more inland waterways are needed by the U. S. for national defense as well as for commerce. He wants to see a coastal-lateral canal system from Boston to Norfolk, Va. A link needed to join up present. parts of this system...
...Prohibition, he said: "I cannot speak for Tennessee, but in our State [Ohio] every man or woman who wants a drink can get it, and I am willing to ... assert that whoever wants liquor anywhere in any State can easily procure it. Senator Borah knows that. Mr. Hoover knows it. Mr. Coolidge knows it. And so does Governor Smith. The difference is that Governor Smith frankly tells the truth about it. ... Now why can't we be perfectly honest and candid and frank with each other on this subject? . . . It's not a new thing for public...