Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted "peace with Germany." "Have I ceased to be a patriot because I defended peace?'' he asked, and his supporters shot back a vociferous "No!" Denying the Leftist accusation that he had dictatorial ambitions, the Premier again rhetorically shouted: "Am I no longer a Republican because I insist upon respect for republican law and order...
...hopping mad he slashed the price of the Dispatch to 1?. It is still there, one of the few remaining penny papers in America. The Citizen stayed at 2?, has some 80,000 circulation (Dispatch: 168,000). Scripps officials believe their new Sunday paper will make money, insist the Wolfes' retaliation will be a boomerang. Said one Scripps spokesman: "They are only cutting their own throats...
Lord Halifax thus argued from the premise that Germany would actually have fought if Munich had not given Hitler what he demanded - a major premise now challenged by critics of the Prime Minister, who insist that "Hitler was only bluffing. There was no real danger of war." Last week Franklin Roosevelt said of Munich in the course of his remarks on the Dies Committee (see p. 7): "Three weeks ago the civilized world was threatened by the immediate outbreak of a world war. Cool heads pleaded for the continuance of negotiations. People may properly differ as to the result...
...week's end no one in authority would predict what might happen next. It seemed unlikely management would still insist on the December 1 cut; but if it should, labor would undoubtedly go on the nation-wide strike already voted. By putting it squarely up to the Government to do something for the staggering roads, the Fact-Finders gave impetus to Franklin Roosevelt's request that the two opposing groups get together on a sweeping legislative program...
...insist that a Communist is not an alien invader at Harvard...