Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victorious finally in the warfare, Paraguay feels apparently that nothing is to be gained by arbitration. Her army at Villa Montes holds a strategic position relative to Bolivia's oil fields Even though she has broken the League covenant thus theoretically exposing herself to international coercion, Paraguay, it would seem, prefers the bird in hand to the possible outcome of the League's peaceful settlement...
Labor. "Employers and employes should be free to bargain collectively or individually . . . without coercion from any source. . . . Men should be protected in their right to work as well as in their right to strike. . . . We believe that sympathetic general strikes or walkouts, blacklists and boycotts should be prohibited...
...biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church. Re-elected president, as he has always been since the Church was organized in 1918, was Vandyke-bearded Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel of Manhattan. The United Lutherans flayed the liquor traffic and indecent cinema; cabled a protest to Adolf Hitler over the coercion of the German churches; came out for a fixed date for Easter and for more unity among the 18 North American Lutheran bodies. Especially would the United Lutheran Church (1,500,000 members) woo the American Lutheran Church (525,000 members). But the latter's President Carl Christian Hein...
...that revolution has yet "swept the United States . . . there are some who are trying to bring it about." With real, unconsciously revolutionary passion he prophesies: "The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seeks to limit...
...will not do what we do not want to do and coercion cannot make us. . . . No one with the slightest sense of history would try to fit such people into a regimented scheme, would try to think for them instead of getting them to think for themselves. . . . In this respect I unhesitatingly avow myself a thorough conservative...