Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Documents VII and VIII give the Czechoslovak Government's official complaint at Adolf Hitler's "unbelievably coarse and vulgar [propaganda] campaign"; go on to affirm that "Hitler's demands in their present form are absolutely and unconditionally unacceptable"; then close with a declaration that "the Czechoslovak Government will be ready to take part in an international conference where Germany and Czechoslovakia, among other nations, would be represented, to find a different method of settling the Sudeten German question...
...present, the important fact is that the work has been commenced. The idealistic aspiration of the two founders have for the first time taken concrete form. It will, however, be the newspapers of the future and the public officials of the future who will either condemn or affirm the convictions of Mrs. Nieman and Mr. Littauer. Meanwhile the responsibility and initiative rests squarely on the shoulders of the nine and thirteen...
...post they had held for 60 years, because Partner Roland Redmond had been too closely identified in the public mind with Richard Whitney's fight against reform. He jammed through SEC's short-selling rule. He inaugurated a series of round-table talks with SEC to affirm publicly the partnership between himself and Douglas...
...John L. Lewis' hands then lay the ticklish problem of whether to risk shaky U.A.W.'s equilibrium further by encouraging a convention that might either affirm or break Homer Martin's authority, or blast U.A.W. permanently...
...Lewis (and everybody else in the country) has lately watched circumstances affirm his conviction that President Martin would have to get tough or get out of U. A. W. A. A treasury depleted by unemployment and unpaid dues; a new outbreak of outlaw strikes in General Motors, several parts plants; the tactical weaknesses inherent for any union in a period of widespread layoffs; substantial concessions to management in contract renewals; a recent and violent intra-union factional flareup-all this impelled Mr. Martin to seek out unionism's new Great Father in Washington...