Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Appropriations subcommittee recently lopped $225,000 off the Bureau's 1937 appropriation increase recommended by a House committee, accused Director Hoover of "running wild" (TIME, April 27). Up in the Senate last week rose speaker after speaker to praise the Bureau of Investigation's work, insist that the $225,000 be put back in the appropriation bill. "I would not revive, by any act or vote of mine," cried Democratic Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson, Arkansas, "one hope in the bosom of a gangster by withholding the means that are necessary to pursue him around this earth...
...inquiry is even mentioned, thousands of indignant telgrams pour into the Senate, and from then on, it is one obstruction after another that the culprits throw across the path of justice. Even polite questionnaires aren't answered, important records are hidden and destroyed, high powered corporation lawyers insist on "constitutional rights", which mean the rights of the rich to keep secret the secrets of their success. But the power and the procedure, in some cases, triumph; after weeks of Senatorial threats, plutocratic evasions, and painstaking research, the real troubles begin with the public hearing...
...book of which your review-did not take advantage that is needed to complete your picture of its author. In the epilog Mario is made to tell Santayana that, "The trouble with you philosophers is that you misunderstand your vocation. You ought to be poets, but you insist on laying down the law for the universe." And that, Santayana remarks earlier in the volume, is "simply the tragedy of the spirit when it's not content to understand but wishes to govern."... B. H. KIZER Graves, Kizer & Graves, Lawyers Spokane, Wash...
Bernstorff: Of course, I think it would be an ideal state of affairs, but our enemies violate all the rules and you insist on their being applied to Germany...
...know full well the duties which the fatherland demands of me in this hour. Countrymen, I insist on recommending order and peace, which as a definite orientation of policy, the Government knows how to maintain energetically...