Word: exertions
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...labor's turn to exert pressure for another veto. It was too soon for pious talk of peace...
Before the public can be expected to exert its force of opinion, it wants to know who is being unreasonable, what steps can be taken to resolve the dilemma, how to get the coal dug and on fire...
...already dangerous breach between labor and management. Rather the government's primary job is to guarantee the bare minimum of industrial operation urgently necessary to national and international welfare. To this end it should present the strike-bound industry with a plan for partial operation during the strike, and exert its full pressure to force acceptance. It is likely that even without governmental pressure management and labor would be willing to carry on absolutely essential production, reserving the main issues of the dispute to be thrashed out by collective bargaining. Government allocation would insure proper distribution of the reduced production...
...coal strike. Now it was something more: a weapon by which he might win unusual gains. The master of strike strategy had made his moves slowly and cleverly. He had been careful not to arouse an apathetic Government and an even more apathetic public against himself-until he could exert the maximum leverage of all that his threat implied...
...perils of individual inspiration, they sensed a character for whom organization and discipline are indispensable to achievement. In his craftiness, they sensed a personal expression of their organizational need for subterranean conspiracy. In his brutality, they sensed a capacity for the terrorism with which a revolutionary minority must always exert its rule over an overwhelming majority. In his intellectual aridity, they sensed an embodiment of that bleakness inseparable from a philosophy which makes man, even for his ultimate greater glory, the pawn of purely materialist forces...