Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Nance Garner had sat for seven years on his Texas farm, stubbornly refusing to say a word about the past. He had even burned all his records (TIME, July 14). But in the long run he could not resist the temptation to join the long line of Franklin Roosevelt's old intimates in the writing of memoirs.* With Garner's blessing, Washington Correspondent Bascom N. Timmons, a crony of his Washington days, drew on his own notes and memory, started the ex-Vice President's story last week in Collier's. Some milk and thorns...
...Zionists, watching the slow whittling away of U.S. support, flew to arms. The mistake was not in the partition plan, they cried, but in U.S. vacillation, which encouraged the Arabs to resist. They called for a repeal of the embargo on arms to the Middle East and for U.S. initiative in forming an international police force...
...last week, before a scant ten members of the House of Deputies, Deputy Pomar stood up and read a rousing, 2,000-word manifesto from Communist Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. It was a statement of party position and a call to arms: "We must block the march of reaction . . . resist without weakening . . . fight for our rights. . . We must organize in our places of work, in the mills, on the farms . . . resorting when necessary to strikes. . . Prove to your fellow workers the real necessity of fighting and resisting the government of hunger, the government of political terror. . . We must fight...
...hook. For example, Chamber representatives first approached a Pennsylvania radiator company in 1933 with studies showing how it could make money in Los Angeles. Every year thereafter they came around to elaborate on their inducements. By 1946, some of the company's officers could no longer resist a trip west to look over possible sites. When they found a likely one, the Chamber arranged for them to buy it. Upshot: last month ground was broken for an $8,000,000 radiator manufacturing plant that will employ 1,500 people...
...Harper; $3), "there will happen what happened before the second World War: we acquiesce in the advance of a hostile system because we insist that it is not so bad. Then when it is on top of us, we conclude that it is very bad indeed and decide to resist. But. . . aggression has attained a momentum too great to stop...