Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Sun photographed George E. Stern because his friends chuckle when they meet him, insist on calling him "Al." Reported the Sun: "Those who don't, might think that looking like a celebrity would be fun, but Mr. Stern, who does, doesn't." Mr. Stern, 43, is a traveling salesman, likes golf and baseball...
...That Mr. Gill's judges insist upon examining trivial matters of administration at length, and at the same time impede the defendant's efforts to explain in detail important new penological concepts, which, because they are new, are not convincing unless fully outlined and backed by records...
...plot, well the plot does not matter unless you insist on logical sequences, and then you will have to admit that it is as plausible a story as that of any legitimate musical comedy. Dolores Del Rio's comely figure and pretty face fit in nicely. But, as I have said before, it is Fred Astaire's picture, one very worth while seeing for his presence, for such tunes as "Carioca." "Flying Down To Rio," and "Music Makes Me," and for the professional direction and photography...
...foreign actors in the United States is surely not so enormous as to hinder the possible employment of local talent now out of work. Even as a bit of private weaseling the bill is pitifully transparent. On the one hand, it is a sop to the actors who insist that something must be done for domestic incompetents now out of jobs, and in its magnanimous provision that the presence of distinguished foreign artists in America will be tolerated, it is a concession to producers who would probably not remain altogether silent at being forced a surrender many of their most...
Some historians will insist that Mr. Roosevelt's nomination, which, it since appears, was equivalent to election, was inevitable anyhow, that he had more than a majority on the first ballot and that he held his ground on the fourth. But the inside story of the Chicago Convention, known to those who participated in it, will not bear out the assertion that no matter how the cards were played the result would have been the same...