Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true national policy rather than destructive nationalism, no progress is possible. As Sir Arthur Salter sees it, the world is full of governments who fail to govern, if they are to save themselves from destruction they must rid themselves of the dictation of particular private interests and once again assert their authority in the interests of the whole...
...addition to the numbers of veterans indicates not only the approval of present day college men for music of a serious character, but also the extent to which the Glee Club represents the desires of the singers included in the University membership. And indeed it is ridiculous to assert that the Glee Club is not linked with the clubs of other years, simply because the trend and the energies of the men involved have been bent in regions of highest musical thought, resulting in achievements that have set the standards for college singers everywhere...
...problem by legislation. The initiative must come from the great insurance and mortgage companies. It may not seem ideal but such things are done with corporate indebtedness. This situation is so serious and the future of the country so involved that it should and can be accomplished. ... I assert . . . that these debts cannot be paid as they stand...
...quiet, private ceremony in a parlor of Manhattan's old Buckingham Hotel. The first two years of their life together were spent in the quiet little river town of Council Bluffs. Iowa, and it was not until the McCormicks moved to Chicago that her imperiousness began to assert itself and the strange things that happen to the very rich began to happen...
...Governor Roosevelt to state specifically what the present Administration has failed to do in this emergency and what steps he would have taken. ... In the face of the shocking system of government existing in New York City, Governor Roosevelt's failure to clean up his own party and assert his moral leadership bars him-honest, amiable and attractive gentleman that he is-from spiritual kinship with . . . Wilson . . . Roosevelt . . . Cleveland...