Word: insists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall Bishop Berggrav has grown even taller in the estimation of his enslaved countrymen since his arrest last year. To them he has become one of Norway's brightest symbols of freedom. Norwegians feel there is no comparison with Niemöller. The German, pastor, they insist, was sent to a concentration camp only because he did not like the Nazis barging into church affairs. Berggrav, on the other hand, took his stand not merely on spiritual grounds, but also because he detested their political theories and said...
...Byrnes, OPA, et al. have licked the problem of price control, rationed all essential goods & services, put across "a fair tax program" (instead of what the union calls "soak-the-poor taxes"), the electrical workers will take their cost-of-living raise in war bonds. If not, they will insist upon "a flat cents-per-hour raise to the base rates of pay . . . to reflect the cost-of-living increase that will have taken place from May 15, 1942 to Aug. 15, 1943 . . . paid in money...
...problem of securing an honest and fair-minded adjustment of the rights of the small nations and at the same time recognizing Russia's demand for security. Mindful of the economic and militaristic advantage to be gained from those areas taken in 1939, Russia may be expected to insist on retaining them. On the other hand, the small states legitimately protest against such a violation of their sovereignty...
Said Frank Knox: "We are not avid for more territory. We do not want to take sovereignty of anything. But it would be wise to insist upon complete control and possession of a sufficient number of bases in the Pacific to insure that both our naval and air strength will be effective against any future aggression in that part of the world...
Next up was newly elected Chesapeake & Ohio Railway President Carl Elbridge Newton, who is a friend of Robert Ralph Young (TIME, Dec. 28), another booster of competitive bidding, and whose road owns 2% of Erie's common stock. Roared he: "I insist the Erie buy its financing on the same prudent basis as it buys its railroad equipment-that is, to benefit its stockholders rather than any selected seller. . . ." Warned Railroader Newton: "I would be reluctant to bring legal action . . . [but] I shall protect the interests...