Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ... If you insist upon likening Warren William's profile to a fish, why pick out a carp [TIME, Sept. 3]? A pickerel, which has been glorified by the automobile manufacturers in the last two years, would have served much better. Or a trout! Or a bass! Warren, born and reared in the game fish region of Northern Minnesota, could hardly look like a carp . . . as there are few of this undesirable species in Northern Minnesota's sky-blue waters. . . . Warren is acquainted only with the better class of fish- real finny beauties...
Lately Minister Hore-Belisha, who is a light sleeper, has turned his attention to the problem of what to do about motorists who insist on sounding their horns, or hooters, late at night. Last fortnight Leslie Hore-Belisha sent bobbies out on their beats with orders to warn all motorists who hooted their hooters between 11:30 p. m. and 7 a. m. within a radius of five miles of Charing Cross. Last week he sent them out to arrest. Magistrates were told that it will cost scofflaws just $10 a hoot...
...Meloney received a sharp message from the Times. The families of bride and groom were denying the marriage report. And Hélène Fortescue herself had denied it to another Times correspondent. Back to Hélène Fortescue went Reporter MacDonald, only to have her insist the story was true. Next day the whole story degenerated into a hoax...
Quick-witted and self-possessed, Premier Okada let the newshawks peck him with impromptu questions about the issue closest to his heart as a Japanese Navy man. This issue all Japanese quarterdeckers passionately call "The 1935 Crisis." The Empire's life and honor are at stake, they insist, because in 1935 the U. S., Britain and Japan must, by treaty, hold a Naval Conference to alter or prolong the 5-5-3 ratio between their navies beyond...
...hold workers' elections to determine what organization will represent what workers-the majority-organization to represent all. The strike, he said, should be indefinitely postponed and, if the steel industry accepted these terms, canceled. With unwonted vigor Mr. Green turned on the delegates and declared: "I insist upon your acting favorably upon this proposition." They did-with only a murmur of dissent. Highly pleased, Messrs. Green and Tighe entrained for Washington to put the union's offer to Madam Secretary Perkins and the President. Said Mr. Tighe: "We are not going to be sold out by Roosevelt...