Word: insistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tchitcherin of "continuing to pretend that Soviet nationals are not safe in Switzerland because many Swiss are anti-Communists." At present the Swiss Government is attempting to patch up its strained relations with the U. S. S. R., and not succeeding very well because M. Tchitcherin prefers to insist that the League go to enormous expense to hold its conferences elsewhere than at Geneva, where its extensive immovable equipment is located...
...Seventh Century by a Briton, Saint Willibrord. Its modern strength dates from 1870, when there acceded to it many Roman Catholic bishops who could not agree to the doctrine of papal infallibility promulgated and accepted by the Vatican Council just interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. Old Catholics insist on the peerage of the bishops, and further object to the stringently monarchial system of the Roman Catholic Church...
Judge von Moschzisker's next topic of discussion was the coal situation. "There is only one point of difference between the two contending factions in the present controversy," he said. "They can agree as to a wage scale and contract for the present, but the operators insist on the arbitration of the wage scale when the contract expires. John Lewis, leader of the miners, says that an agreement to this proposition would be entering into voluntary slavery. However, contrary to general opinion. I am sure that both parties are trying to serve the public faithfully. Pennsylvania is suffering just...
...question and answer column nor is it inspired by the deft delightfulness of syndication. But I have lost "The Polyglots". It may be too much like "Men Prefer Blondes" to appeal to those who say that be tripe fish or few! the "New Yorker" is tripe, but I insist that it is worth reading, especially at mid-years when life is not half so gay and careless as the last lectures of most Perfervid Professors might lead one to believe...
...None can do the impossible. If the debtor is to be able to pay and if the creditor is to receive anything, a settlement fair to both countries is essential. It follows that those who insist upon impossible terms are in the final analysis working for an entire repudiation of the debts. The only other alternative which they might urge is that the United States go to war to collect...