Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mars, ex-bootlegger and smalltime "fixer" now serving five years for extortion, testified that in 1933 he paid cash in return for the bootlegging and slot-machine privileges in Plymouth and Woodbury Counties to Attorney General O'Connor. "O'Connor said it was very strange that I would insist on wanting to make the first payment to him direct, and I told him that I didn't know him . . . and he said: 'Well, I know you are just a bootlegger, and if you ever say anything about this you may be sure that I will ride you in the penitentiary...
...seems inevitable that in the event of a European was this country will merely give up its trade in armaments but will rigidly insist upon maintaining all other commerce with the belligerent nations. With unexpected bluntness Mr. Baruch plunged his fist right through this frail platform in a candid exhortation for genuine neutrality. Speaking as one who perhaps knows more about war economy than any other man, President Wilson's head of the War Industries Board declared, "There isn't no such animal as non-war material...
Democratic Error. As a High Councilor, Dr. Carrel would promptly correct ''an error'' concerning democratic equality. Says he: "This dogma is now breaking down under the blows of the experience of the nations. It is, therefore, unnecessary to insist upon its falseness. But its success has been astonishingly long. How could humanity accept such faith for so many years? The democratic creed does not take account of the constitution of our body and of our consciousness. It does not apply to the concrete fact which the individual is. Indeed, human beings are equal. But individuals...
Shrewdly Foilman Reynolds planted himself halfway between oldtime builders who upheld the traditional methods of constructing a house and prefabricators who insist that all homes should be produced like Fords. He believed in standardization and mass production of parts but not of the complete structure. Through Reynolds Corp., one of two new subsidiaries, Reynolds Metals will market the basic structural and mechanical equipment for "The House with the Silver Lining," but will have no stock homes to sell. Through the other subsidiary, Reynolds Fiscal Corp., it will finance houses "when local financing is not available...
General, did not insist that George V appoint another Australian to replace the present Governor General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, appointed by His Majesty with the indignant comment, "a man whom I have never seen...