Word: coercion
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Attendance Up. Seven called Times Critic Harvey Taylor and told him, he reported, that they had signed a paper under virtual coercion demanding that Taylor himself be barred from all future concerts. The Times front-paged the whole story...
...Strike Him?" After an hour of fruitless questioning, the major asked Pirogov whether he had given any thought to his family back in Russia. "I object!" an American officer put in heatedly. "That's coercion." "What do you mean, coercion?" the MVD man replied in an injured tone. "Did I strike him?" After an hour's argument over what constituted coercion, the major was finally allowed to ask whatever he wanted. He drew a blank...
...packed his thinking on peace and war, non-violence and violence, love and law, justice and coercion, into ten provocative words: "Christianity stands for the consecration, not the elimination, of force." Another sentence shows the originality, daring, and germinal nature of his theological thinking: "Christianity is the most avowedly materialist of all the great religions...
...planks were cut pretty much to the policies of Robert Taft. The party reasserted its belief in "minimum" government controls and in the U.S. competitive system, the "mainspring of material well-being and political freedom." At the same time Republicans pledged themselves to protect "both workers and employers against coercion and exploitation," recognized the responsibilities of the Federal Government in housing, conservation, public health, security for the aged. But they vested final control of such matters in the states, not in Washington bureaucracy...
...copy of the report was sent to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. If General MacArthur did not change his ways, the correspondents hoped that the A.S.N.E. would investigate "intimidation, coercion and censorship" in Japan...