Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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America's "answer to the threat of totalitarian war," he said, is the same as it was in 1917-18,--a reliance on what President Wilson termed "the spontaneous cooperation of a free people." He pointed out, however, that the "big stick" of coercion is "available for use on the recalcitrant if necessary...
Problem's keynoter was the Rev. Guy F. Hershberger of Goshen, Ind., who declared: "Industrial coercion in any form, whether peaceful or not, is not scriptural.' It usually leads to violence." His proposed solution: a "return to the farm, where our people were always happy and successful," backed by a development of rural cooperatives and a church-financed program to purchase farms for young couples...
...India, Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi publicly apologized for his recent hunger strike victory over the autocratic Thakore Saheb of Rajkot. It was coercion, said the Mahatma, to have accepted British intercession. "I should have been content to die if I could not have melted the Thakore Saheb's heart...
...there are those who think that if he goes on with his Coercion Acts and his persecution of real Republicans that this same turkey-faced boyo will end the same way that all good turkeys...
...electorate favor some law against "allowing anybody to influence the vote of persons on relief either through coercion or promise of reward"; 70% favor prohibiting campaign contributions by Relief clients or officials, 60% would extend the ban to all Federal employes. (Dr. George Gallup's "Institute of Public Opinion...