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Word: insists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...please girls, one thing I must Insist upon; you must be particularly careful not to make any montion of this book to any Crimson man after that horrld publicity they spread around about that foolish hockey game last fall," said she primly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...committee to compromise with the House. In wrath. Senator Glass resigned from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee. The whole Senate felt it had been injured by the President's about-face after it had acted. Result: The Senate threatened to revolt, to reject compromise with the House, to insist on its own version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bearers of Tidings | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...espousing a belief in freedom of speech will not submit to a subjugation of it under the tattoo of horses' hoofs. The brutality and officiousness demonstrated yesterday are to be deplored. Courtesy must be extended to the visiting ship, and the activities of shouting "Red" or other agitators who insist on making themselves obnoxious must be curtailed in the interest of good sense, but the tactics pursued must be different than those used yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON'S FINEST | 5/18/1934 | See Source »

...very excited by the Diamond attack until Richard Hugh Scott, Reo's president, squared off against Chairman Olds. An oldtime Dry who used to insist that the return of 4% beer would make two idle for every one it employed, President Scott was Reo's general manager with dictatorial powers until last December. Mr. Scott's endorsement of the Diamond committee brought an angry blast from the Reo management: "We agree with the independent stockholders' committee that the results of operations of the company during the past few years have been unsatisfactory. For that very reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reo Tussle | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...their furniture to buy food. A Superior Court judge signed the order. "Heartbroken" and weeping, Mary Astor, whose last picture was Easy to Love, told her side of the story: "I have never refused to support my parents. . . . I've done everything in the world for them. They insist on living in the mansion and I can't support them in extravagance. In 1930 I gave them $1,000 a month and my father borrowed $18,000 on the house. That made $30,000. He took it and built an immense swimming pool in the yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rags & Riches | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

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