Word: defiant
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...sent out a circular wire to leaders of the Indian National Congress, demanding a general mobilization of protest "since this child is unquestionably unfit to marry a man of such ripe years." Hindu reporters, most of whom have a sneaking sympathy for such bridegrooms, described the rejuvenated Hindu as "defiant," as "resolved to have his rights...
...Taking a defiant stand against his White House friend, Senator Wagner cried last week: "The time has passed when we can dodge responsibility by calling everything relief and applying the standards of relief. If we are satisfied with relief alone, we shall never achieve economic reconstruction. If those on public works are treated on a relief basis, every objective of public works will be defeated. Morale will be lowered, not restored; wages will go down, not up; purchasing power will shrivel, not expand; business will be demoralized, not stabilized. The wage policy of the New Deal will be thrown into...
...Fisher figures, 62 concerns gladly divided the huge order. Bartlett C. Tully of Anderson-Tully Co., one of the biggest hardwood units in the hardwood capital of Memphis, made haste to resign from the code authority because he shared in the Fisher order. Recruiting hundreds of allies the 62 defiant companies then asked the code authority to abolish price-fixing. Last week after the Memphis pow-wow their petition was flatly denied. NRA Deputy Administrator E. A. Selfridge threatened to crack down, declaring that the Department of Justice was ready to start suits against each & every...
...ahead with a Five Year Plan to industrialize Turkey and make her self-sufficient. In this program the building of cotton mills was put first "so that the Turkish people shall no longer wear the imported cotton shirts of economic slavery to the Imperialist Powers." Last week in this defiant spirit General Ismet opened at Bakirkoy the first of several new State cotton mills, a magnificent plant of latest design with 9,000 spindles, 335 looms and a production of 9,500,000 yards of cotton cloth per year...
...Western plains. Pre-empted the last free land-Now it is time (I have known it long in my heart} for this country To twist a lariat of us and throw it Over the ocean-to-ocean-flinging land And flip its loop across the lifted, crashing Defiant horns of the wild American spirit And with a twist around the saddle horn Drop it to earth, and on its sprawling hide Burn the clear new-world brand that unto men Shall be a witness of our heritage Wherever that great untamable beast shall toss The stars of heaven...