Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their packs when he banned Father Coughlin's up-to-the-minute Fascist newsmagazine on the grounds of sedition under the espionage act. At 11:30 Sunday morning Social Justice distributors in Boston decided not only that they would ignore this crimp in their staff, but they would also assert their displeasure in no uncertain terms. The driver of a Social Justice truck, Joseph McDonald, kicked to pieces Traveler photographer Hansen's camera when he tried to take a picture of a newsboy handing out the magazine. Hansen asserts that a Boston policeman held him while McDonald kicked...
...viewpoint, it is directly detrimental to the war effort. The training of skilled laborers in NYA schools is undoubtedly a war activity, for without those skills the basic defense industries would be forced to close down. CCC boys are admittedly of military age, but few Congressmen have dared to assert that soil erosion and wastage of natural resources are of no bearing on wartime supply problems. Considered in its longterm affects, the bill is even more foolish. Several tens of thousands of college students are directly dependent on NYA funds for their educations. If the money...
...distorted one of Nazi philosophy--can be said only of people who are free, who in the fullest possession of the dignity of true freedom choose to give support to their country. The Germans have never been a free people, they have never been able to assert their rights, they have always been ruled, and, therefore, remained politically immature. If the generation of the last war veterans--due to lack of proper training for self-government--could not make a success of their new Republic, how much less can the present Nazi-trained Germans find their places in a peaceful...
...Gallup poll last week reported that, of the 45% of Americans who drive to work (or ride with someone else), nearly three-quarters assert that they can get to work some other way. And 54% of all U.S. automobile owners made the astounding declaration that, if they couldn't use their cars at all, it wouldn't make much difference anyway...
These same groups now assert-and it was clear that they would-that the outcome of the part of the United States in the Pacific phase of the world war can and must be independent of its phases in China, Russia, England, the Mediterranean; and in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Norway. These groups justly incite distrust and suspicion against themselves-their suggestions are so outstandingly preposterous...