Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Board of Directors probably feel the necessity of more strongly than others. But if the plan is adopted, one extreme view will prevail, those who hold it will be put in absolute control of the Society, and the members will not in the future have a chance to insist upon its modification. M. A. SULLIVAN...
...taken on May 29, but the details of the plan upon which the vote is to be taken are not given. Any plan involving a complete change in the organization of the society should receive the most careful consideration before adoption, and the members of the society should insist that the Board of Directors comply with the vote of last November and have at least two weeks before the election is held for discussion of the plan to be voted upon. C. H. AYRES...
...greatest enjoyments in life. It is a well known truth of art as well as politics, that what the people earnestly and persistently want, that they get. The continental people have permanent opera because the intellectual and imaginative parts of their nature cannot live without it; they insist upon having...
...Brown begins by estimating that one American in five votes for a person, that one in ten votes for a platform, and that the great mass of Americans vote for parties. He then goes on to insist that, contrary to de Tocqueville and Mr. Bryce, actual parties with definite underlying principles do exist. His opinion is contained in the following extract: "Further, I maintain that a fair-minded examination of the present aspect of our two great parties leads to the conclusion that they still represent with reasonable consistency, the two great sets of interests, and the two great types...