Word: insists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everybody must realize that this 5 1-2 percent income, as provided by law, is not much of a profit; in fact, it is barely a fair rate of interest on money invested. No one can, therefore, fairly criticise railroad managements if they insist upon seeing that their roads get at least this meagre 5 1-2 percent income which the law allows them before they will accede to any rate reductions which certain shipping interests are clamoring for so that they may swell their own profits...
...American public does not consider the cost when it wants anything. Now it wants service above everything, and the railroads cannot give service if they are starved as in the past several years. I think the railway situation can only be adjusted by several measures. The government must insist that present rates and present wages remain for six months or one year to give the railroads, the employees and the country the opportunity to see what can be done under the Transportation...
...small who accepted it and by so doing swelled the tide of popular opinion that made the war possible. Observe, I am not expressing an opinion on any of these questions. In this place it would hardly be proper for me to do so. I am merely seeking to insist upon the responsibility of every man for his opinions by pointing out how his personal opinions go into the great scales in which the destinies of mankind are balanced...
...extra-curriculum activities, football men go through monotonous practice after monotonous practice; managers have the same difficulties of administration; work on the papers becomes fundamentally the same scramble for copy. Finally one goes to the familiar room, fishes his pajamas from under the pillow--where the unhygienic goodies insist of putting them--adjusts the window-shade so the street light will not shine in his eyes, just as he has done fifty times before. Routine makes up the undergraduate's life; we are living in the Main Street of Harvard...
...citizenship in a humble and modest manner, in order to be able to live their own life as Jews. But instead of appreciation for their spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice, they often bring upon themselves misunderstanding and suspicion, Still others demand their full rights as men and insist also upon their full rights as Jews, and when these two come in conflict, they clamor for special privileges. Instead of sympathizing with them for their honest strivings to maintain a difficult position, the world treats them with impatience as a general nuisance...