Word: insists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather favorably impressed with Mr. White, the director at Fort Worth, when I met him, and told him that I would not be unduly active in promoting any candidate for appointment as enforcement officer, but I do insist that neither you nor he should do anything which will injure my standing in the state in which I live and endanger my chances for re-election in the coming campaign...
...hour, I mek you 'appy," he promises his old friend,--to attempt to reproduce Alan Mowbray's quaint dialect with its compound of American, a plausible Spanish accent, and the twang of Oxford English. There is the mortgage. Pancho robs a bank and pays it. One or two individuals insist in getting in the way. Pancho's confrere, Pedre, points firearms at them. There is the offensive and superfluous husband. Pancho shoots him personally. "There! What you say, my frien'?" Are you not 'appy...
...week, attempted to inject a denial of her War guilt and a request for the evacuation of Cologne by the Allies into her acceptance of the Allied invitation to Locarno. She was promptly squelched by diplomatic reprimands from Allies, and is coming to the conference anyway. But, Stresemann should insist on introducing either of these matters at the conference, matters might go to smash on that alone*2) Although Germany is apparently not heeding Russia's menacing suggestions that she had best keep away from a Locarno pact (see RUSSIA) , she cannot but be . influenced by so powerful...
...version of the matter, which is that he has waited to resign his post until recent French successes have made the fruits of his early labors again secure. His enemies frankly hint that Abd-el-Krim had nearly blasted the rich protectorate of Lyautey, root and branch. Petain, they insist, must have full credit for saving...
...Page was unsympathetic in enforcing U. S. rights as a neutral when Britain broke international law by going to extremes in her blockade of Germany. He fought with Lansing who tried to insist on American rights. He even gave Britain a hint to have a U. S. vessel seized by the French in order to ease up Anglo-American tension...