Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those of other people do; just as mine no doubt irritate theirs-life is like that, thank God ; the world would be a dusty place if all tastes were alike. De gustibus non disputandum. One of the most entertaining features of your magazine is the uproar of people who insist upon disputanding other people's gustibusses. I find delight in watching that weekly circus, even if you do sometimes allow too many encores, permitting obvious pinheads to overstay their welcome. Run your magazine to please yourselves. Don't try to please everybody -it can't be done...
...Governor Smith] is nominated, I shall vote and work for him," said Judge Greenwood. "But ... I am not willing that it should go out to the North and the East and the South without further conventions that the great West is for Smith for President. If you insist on that, then we have reached the parting of the ways...
...home work" again, the President intensified his study of problems on which he must act this autumn and winter. What to spend on the U. S. merchant marine was apparently one self-assignment, for at a press conference the President voluntarily opined that U. S. shippers and importers should insist on U. S. bottoms...
...this point Nevada stepped in, asking California to be more specific and announcing that, though content with a 2% water allotment, she would insist on a full third of the lower basin power rights. New Mexico spoke, too, telling California that no arbitration board was needed or desired. Arbitration was the purpose of the Denver meeting itself, to keep the whole project out of Federal juris- diction...
Massed 7,500 strong in a semicircle in front of the platform, the Sioux listened to their Council's memorial, of which the burden was that the Sioux are too proud to ask for anything not rightly theirs but must insist that the Government restore to them certain lands taken away after supposedly permanent treaty settlements...