Word: insistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anent Senator Henry Cabot Lodge: "Without any preliminary greeting Mr. Lodge said: 'Mr. Hanna, I insist on a positive declaration for a gold-standard plank in the platform.'Hanna looked up and said: ' Who in hell are you ?' Lodge answered: 'Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts.' ' Well, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, you can go plumb to hell. You have nothing to say about it,' replied Mr. Hanna. Lodge said: 'All right, sir, I will make my fight on the floor of the convention.' 'I don't care a damn where you make your fight,' replied Hanna."The chapter...
Princess Hermine, wife of Wilhelm: " The Prussian Government is considering requisitioning my 40 room castle at Amtitz to relieve the housing shortage. I insist that the schloss should be reserved for the sole use of my 13 year old son, who is at present with me at Doorn...
...Will W. J. Bryan and the Dr. Stratons be willing to concede as much on their part? Unfortunately that degree of tolerance is not to be looked for from those who insist that science is merely antagonistic to religion. The trained man of science may grant the possibility of harmony between revelation and human progress in solving the secrets of nature, but to the religious dogmatist there is no middle ground...
...Robinson does not insist that people should not go to Wolfeboro if they have any real reason for going. What he wants is that they should not keep on blindly in any course keep on blindly going to Wolfeboro just because they have been brought up that...
...penalty of suffering in their turn and under a new government need not be further ground down. But the more practical and, for business men, the more appealing argument, is that it may be better to reduce our just claims and then receive payment of the remainder, than to insist on the uttermost farthing and obtain no returns at all from a Europe badly wrecked upon economic rocks...