Word: insists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans to rely in lieu of an active personal campaign are less and less impressed with him as a servant of the people, but more and more as a big, self-sufficient boy who, if given the whole government to run, would no doubt run it efficiently but insist upon running it-like a new train-all by himself...
...time for the convention nears. The debate turns partly upon Hoover's opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill and partly upon the famous dollar-wheat decision of the Food Administration in war days. Hoover makes no bones of his opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill but his friends insist that he had nothing to do with the dollar-wheat decision, and cite evidence to prove their case. That evidence is now being carried to the tribunal of the nation--the people...
Before the time of Wagner, the use of foreign languages in grand opera had a raison d'etre in the musical quality of French and Italian; but no one would insist that the gutteral muttering of Teutonic heroes are more melodious than a reasonably good English version. There is really no reason for thinking it plebeian to enjoy understanding the words of an opera; the granting of this privilege is a type of one hundred percentism that has value...
...York's swart La Guardia began to talk: "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am as 'Wet' as any man in this House. . . . What we as 'Wets' ought to do ... is . . . insist upon the Prohibition Bureau having sufficient men, appropriating enough money. ... If the American people want Prohibition ... it will cost them anywhere from...
...Howell's newspaper, the Atlanta Constitution, published an editorial which said: "If we insist upon 'a Southern man' for President, it is only because the politicians force us to so describe him. The real basis of our particular claim is that a great section of the Union, rapidly advancing in population, wealth and consequence to the prosperity and perpetuity of the nation, has been definitely and persistently denied political equalities for three successive generations. . . . It is our sincere conviction that the country at large is ripe for such a political innovation...