Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SECommissioner Ganson Purcell said: "It may prove to be wise to insist that corporate salaries be reasonably restricted." Purcell would like to set up a temporary wartime Government agency with specific control over all corporate earnings...
While a temporary compromise is in effect that the Union shall postpone demands for a closed shop and that the University shall not insist on an open shop contract, the two negotiating parties must now reach an amicable agreement, or else it was agreed that the matter be referred to the State Mediation Board, "whose decision shall be final and binding on the University and the Union...
Before rushing off to attend its present meeting in New York City the British representative stopped long enough to add that "although English workingmen do insist on all their desires being given proper attention, they avoid stopping production." The reason, he said, was simple...
...Ordnance adopted the 37-mm. gun. European armies had already found the 37-mm. too light, had 45-and 47-mm. guns in service, were planning larger pieces. Even today Ordnance has not publicly conceded that the 37-mm. is too light to stop modern tanks. But field soldiers insist they need something more powerful-and Ordnance is getting it for them...
Leaving a discussion of the misadventures of jazz in Hollywood to a later column, I am afraid that Broadway has paid even scantier attention to hot music than the film capital. But at least, the stage has not tried to commercialize all music as the movies insist on doing. It would seem that the greater powers of realism, within limits, and of characterization which the theatre still possesses would offer an opportunity to tell a convincing story in which something of the essence of jazz might be reflected. The great obstacle, of course, has been the inclusion of jazzmen, obviously...