Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eccentric Laborite. Weeks ago he proposed to fatten the flabby treasury of his province by issuing "turnip money," i.e. paper money secured not by gold, but by the natural wealth of the country, turnips, mutton, wheat, etc. (TIME, Feb. 23). Dissuaded from this he next proposed that Australia should insist that Great Britain give her as favorable terms of debt settlement as Great Britain had received from the U. S. Last week he went further. On April 1, New South Wales must pay certain bondholders in Britain and the U. S. $4,273,140 in interest. Still riled by what...
...Atlantic writer supports the rapidly growing group of educators who insist that far, too many attempt to go through college. "The public must be made to understand," the article runs, "that individuals differ as widely in their educational needs as they do in their physical appearance." The popular fallacy that every man should go to college, that unintellectual, though not necessarily unintelligent, men ought to have academic training is doubtless at the bottom of the inconsistencies of some college curricula...
Answer: Progressive opinion is against any such wholesale nationalization. It demands that governments insist on principles of prudent investment, elimination of stock juggling inflation and on competent commissions; that the people shall have the right to engage in the production of power by their own determination; the elimination of corruption and undercover propaganda by utility interests...
...addresses were rehashes of things said and said again in Congress. New ideas were scarce. From Senator Borah came the Big Speech. His subject was Wealth, with a dash of Farm Relief for flavoring. High spot: "To attack the rich because they are rich is one thing but to insist that they shall operate in accordance with honest laws and honest principles is the supreme question today before the American people. . . . Economists have advised us that 3% of the people own 75% of the wealth. Let's say 4% own 80%. I would not take it from them...
Unlike his grandsire Edward VII, Edward of Wales does not carry about his own chips and baccarat paraphernalia in his luggage, nor does he insist on playing in homes where he is a guest. The 1890 affair revealed that Queen Victoria's eldest son had these habits when it brought the then Prince of Wales into court to testify against a British officer who had been caught cheating H. R. H. by three male witnesses and two females...