Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there in the end. And so are Joan Blondell, the wise little girl from Three Rivers, Illinois, and Wallace Ford, the rip-roaring cow-puncher from Peach Springs, Arizona, in each other's arms. It's very sweet, and all so terribly exciting. The horrid audience just would insist on laughing the rude things...
...endorse his campaign. "Buy American" slogans were slugged liberally throughout the makeup of Hearstpapers. First tangible result was that the City of New York agreed to specify domestic steel in all future building contracts. The buy-at-home idea has spread to States and even cities. Many States insist on state-made products in public works, give preference in supply buying.-So marked has this movement become that the Saturday Evening Post, three weeks after it ran Mr. Blythe's article, devoted its lead editorial to deploring "The New Sectionalism": "To set up barriers . . . against the freest possible interchange...
...cross and recross with red ink all of those, "And for those kind the students will pay through the nose! "Better middle-class English we'll teach in our schools, "And correct composition we'll leave to the fools "Who are picayune, narrow, and nasty enough "To insist that their pupils must master such stuff...
...nation." Foes of stock speculation claim that a few insiders deceive and mulct the public. Foes of commodity speculation claim that in bull markets the price of foods is lifted beyond reason, while in bear markets the farmers are cheated of their just returns. Professional speculators in all cases insist that they are needed to maintain an active market, necessary in stocks for investors and in commodities for merchants who must hedge their purchases of raw materials. Speculator Cutten, well aware that further regulation threatens the wheat pit, which "is for me as the deck of his ship...
...death of 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg. They would then push forward "as a stabilizing influence" a Hohenzollern? not as Kaiser but as "German Regent." In Bavaria, where monarchist heads are hottest, the populace already hail 63-year-old Rupprecht of Wittlesbach as "Your Majesty'' and will certainly insist that he be made Regent of BaVaria if a Hohenzollern becomes German Regent. Rupprecht, a good fellow despite his stern exterior, used to joke at continued Bavarian loyalty to himself when the Republic was first proclaimed. Cheered to the echo at Munich, he shouted jovially at the crowd "Fine republicans...