Word: proclaiming
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Southern operators did not improve the chances of a settlement when they bought space in the country's newspapers to proclaim that the wage differential was not the chief reason they had refused to sign a contract with John L. Lewis' miners; the chief reason was to prevent Lewis from becoming "dictator of this country," and they asked the public to help by writing Washington. Whatever Lewis' ambitions, there was little in the Southerners' citations to support their charge. Wrote Columnist Dorothy Thompson, after reading the ad: "There ought to be something like...
...What we want is a short, clear creed, acceptable to the decent common man everywhere, that will act like a trumpet call. Then we must proclaim it everywhere. ... If we fought with ideas as well as weapons, we should not only help to construct a world worth living in, but also shorten...
Backed by seven parliamentary votes, opposed by 293, he could not risk an election, and prevailed upon George to proclaim martial law and dissolve Parliament. In the face of violent public wrath the King argued, "Little John gets things done," and slipped off for a fortnight until his new premier had proved his mettle...
...horror of ... Naziism, we must find a way of living superior, not merely to Naziism, but to that which we ourselves knew before. ... We are unprepared for this. . . . You must be prepared to offend people who are determined to preserve the existing order. ... I beg of you now to proclaim the new society openly. ... So only wall you save yourselves...
...proposed by Liberal M. P. Sir Richard Thomas Acland, which stirred up the only major controversy in the four-day conference. This amendment asserted that "the ownership of the great resources of our community . . . [by] private individuals is a stumbling block. . . . The time has come, therefore, for Christians to proclaim the need for seeking some form of society in which this stumbling block will be removed...