Word: insists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pride in Western industry causes me to rise up in indignation to insist that the readers of TIME be properly informed on this point...
Each side swears manfully that it wants no strike. The miners insist that the operators are trying to increase their profits and will not listen to reason. The operators offer repeatedly to arbitrate, which the miners will not do, saying that arbitration has cost them too much in former years. So the deadlock persists...
...measure was ignorantly alleged to be an act of courtesy toward the U. S. Government. This seemed far-fetched : 1) because Columbus, on his first trip west, did not discover the land which is now called the U. S.; 2) Italians have always been at some pains to insist that Columbus was an Italian...
...under or in violation of the agrarian laws for which no compensation has been made, and other properties practically ruined and, in one instance, taken by the Mexican Government on account of unreasonable demands of labor. Mr. Sheffield will have the full support of this Government and we will insist that adequate protection under the recognized rules of international law be afforded American citizens...
This reform will be eagerly looked for by restaurant habitues, but there is still one evil which cries for reformation. Some compulsive power must insist that steaks be large enough to be visible to the naked...