Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reject atheistic Communism. We disavow racial Hitlerism. We turn our backs upon industrial Fascism. We insist upon a legislature as the Fathers of our country created it, not under the dictatorship of a President, not under the dictatorship or the fear of a high commissioner of prostituted patronage which tends to make America a one-party government. We are not organized to compete with the old parties. But we are organizing under a definite necessity to blast out of existence the reactionaries, the threadbare conservatives and the hypocrites who disgrace the halls of Congress as they impede the movement towards...
...tart and determined as ever, Senator Carter Glass of Virginia marched into the White House to demand an answer to one question: Did the President, contrary to the assurances he had given Mr. Glass in January and in March, intend to insist on the passage of that section of the Administration's Banking Bill which would give the Federal Reserve System in fief to the Treasury Department? Mr. Roosevelt's closest friends in Congress had said the President would so insist. In the face of Mr. Glass's demand for an unequivocal answer, the President said...
...sovereignty of the State shall be no more. The new President has set up a Boston Tea Party of his own by which he will reach out into the sovereign States, draw out the tax resources, and then withhold from the States their proportion of this fund if they insist on exercising the right of a State...
...does TIME insist upon playing up the moron from Louisiana by draping his funny ace on the front page of the greatest news...
...marked contrast to its supporters, who insist on speaking of trenches, mire, and flags, etc., the opposition to the bill headed by prominent educators has replied in sober language. They view the bill merely as an aspersion on their loyalty and seek, with pathetic eagerness, to discover reasons for the bill's existence lurking somewhere in the background...