Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a great & good friend of Calvin Coolidge disturbed Washington by crying "guts." Declared Seattle's Kenneth Mackintosh, member of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement: "I shall insist that the Commission go to the guts of this whole Prohibition question...
...guessed that he was simply awaiting the report of the National Law Enforcement Commission as a basis for revision (if any) of his policy. Though he opposes repeal of the 18th Amendment, his public record is not so Dry as to exclude every form of modification. He is still, insist his secretariat, open-minded on the "experiment noble in motive...
Patriotic Frenchmen are always vexed to remember that good Fascists insist on calling the hind side of Mont Blanc Monte Mussolini. Last week Il Duce entered geography again. As part of a really praiseworthy Fascist irrigation scheme 25,000 acres of Sardinian swamp land have been drained, restored to cultivation, settled with 2,000 immigrants from the mainland. Last week this new land was formally incorporated as a comune (township) invested by gracious permission of II Duce with the imposing title of Comune di Mussolinia di Sardegna...
Almost killed at San Sebastian last week was famed Matador Cazaucido, until now one of Spain's favorites. Overcome, as his friends insist, "by the presence of too many fair admirers," he refused to face the bull, was drummed from the ring in disgrace, fled for his life from whistling, bottle-throwing, infuriated spectators...
...records show a gradual spread of institutional medicine in the U. S., of doctors working for hire?for clinics, insurance companies, factories, labor camps, government agencies. Especially does governmental interference with medicine annoy Dr. Morgan and his A. M. A. associates. They insist that the Government should abstain from conducting, controlling or subsidizing any form of medical treatment "excepting such service as is provided by the Army, Navy or Public Health Service, and that which is necessary for the control of communicable diseases, the treatment of mental diseases, the treatment of the indigent sick, and such other service...