Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States, before joining the World Court, should insist on a new method of electing the judges. In as much as the method of electing judges has always been the most difficult matter to arrange in past efforts to create a World Court, many politicians and political commentators assert that the President, by raising the question, is preparing a graceful retreat from the World Court issue. But five times in his speech the President stated that he was not retreating...
...significance for Mr. Smith. The fact that President Harding had indicated what he wished Governor Smith to do, the fact that Governor Smith did the opposite, and in so doing reasserted the old Democratic doctrine of States Eights, lends an unusual political significance to his act. His friends assert that it makes him certain of the Vice Presidency nomination on the Democratic ticket next fall. Others are equally certain that he cut his political throat. Whichever may be the case, it was an unusually clever move of his to base his action, bound to offend the Drys, on a fundamental...
Said Justice Clarke: " With what I am sure is a proper spirit of submission, I assert that the President has been so busy during the last two years that he has forgotten the record...
...Thomas Doyle, of Baton Rouge, La., disillusioned members of the Kuzbas experiment, assert that in Siberia Lerner boasted that he had driven the fatal " little red wagon" to Wall Street. Beyond the knowledge that he was in New York at the time of the explosion and is a regular member of the I. W. W. there is no evidence against...
...Lasker's influence with the President is commonly spoken of as striking and " mysterious." Recently two reliable political journalists, William Hard and Mark Sullivan, took occasion to make emphatic denial of this common conception. Mark Sullivan, indeed, went so far as to assert absolutely that President Harding himself was solely responsible for bringing up the ship subsidy proposal-that Mr. Lasker merely formulated its details and pressed it in accordance with the President's desire...