Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuban Government announced, "These people look more like agitators than investigators." Said Odets: 'The commission represents those Americans who are irreconcilably opposed to the domination of Cuba by American financial and industrial interests. . . . Newspaper reports indicate the complete destruction of civil liberties in Cuba. We insist upon returning. And when we come back, we will come with names they can't afford to touch.''* Next evening Odets & companions were ferried back across Havana Bay, bundled aboard the Oriente, shipped ignominiously back to Manhattan...
...nearly 20 years and nearly every white jazzist of any consequence has at one time or another been a member of his orchestra. As to his present organization it is true that his weekly radio program is very poor but that is due to the fact that the sponsors insist on a lot of so-called comedy, windy advertising and entirely too much vocalizing. When the orchestra is allowed its all too few numbers on the program I insist that the so-called ''King of Jazz" is still living up to his rich tradition. Of course, Whiteman cannot...
...Almost everybody now is afraid. This is reflected in the hysteria of certain organs of opinion, which insist on free speech for themselves, though nobody has thought of taking it away from them, and at the same time demand that it be denied everybody else. It is reflected in the re-turn of Billingsgate to politics. It is reflected in the general resistance to all uncomfortable truths. It is reflected in the decay of the national reason. Almost the last question you can ask about any proposal nowadays is whether it is wise, just, or reasonable. The question...
...Band Concert in London, Arturo Toscanini exclaimed, "Surely it is impossible! It is magnificent!", had the film run over again. Hearing that Cine-man Disney planned a European tour, Conductor Toscanini announced: "I shall invite him to my Italian home at Lake Maggiore. Si, si, I shall insist...
...your Representatives in Congress know how the loss of NRA will affect you and insist-demand-that everything left by the Court's decision be saved...