Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chrome to offer Germany (enough to make up Germany's deficit) when pressure was put on from Berlin. She had chrome to offer the U.S. and Britain when they put the heat on (the U.S. is now receiving all the chrome that Germany is not). She could insist, and rightly, that her neutrality was protecting Britain's flank when the Wehrmacht reached the eastern Mediterranean. To Germany, if Hitler tried invasion, she could offer the prospect of stiff resistance in rugged country, almost devoid of communications. She has trumps of war today for the Allies: some...
...reply which began "Dear Chester," the President wrote, without his usual urbanity: "It would be unfair to you to insist that you remain in your position when you feel that, all things considered, you can not wholeheartedly support a program to hold down the cost of living...
...precedent of force, i.e., the citizenry is justified in forcing a government of little courage into the unpleasantness of total war. . . . Washington is no different from the hesitant soldier; both must be forced into unpleasantness. The soldier may die. The Government may lose the next election. The people must insist on the power of force in total war against the individual and against the Government...
...attitudes concerns tariffs. It will probably not be essential for the U.S. to embrace free trade, but economic man in the U.S. must take a firm resolve not to allow unemployment or threat of unemployment to panic him into raising old tariffs or adding new ones. He should not insist on exhausting the last high-cost mine before letting in a ton of foreign ore. Often he may find ways in which tariffs can be lowered for the profit of the very groups they are supposed to protect. But most of all he must be conscious of his consumer interest...
...have taken over many private banking functions, with results in some cases that still await a critical examination. Some bankers have presumably become wiser for their bitter experiences, but they lack the opportunity to prove their wisdom and to attract new, able personnel. The public can well afford to insist that in the world economy bankers and the profit motive be given a chance to perform as they performed in the most thriving period of the world's history...