Word: resister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mysteries. Tokyo has one of the world's most up-to-date Metropolitan Police Buildings, a modernistic affair especially built to resist sudden attack. Yet (Continued on page 25) by dawn, without a shot having been fired in attack or defense, it was in the hands of young mustards...
...equipment trust certificates to be sold by two of U. S. Steel's railroad subsidiaries for the purchase of freight cars, the bulk of corporate financing is still refunding-swapping new money for old.* Interest rates are so low that almost no solvent corporation can resist the temptation to call in old high-coupon bonds, pay them off with cheap funds...
...vital British interests exist in Ethiopia or its neighborhood sufficient to oblige His Majesty's Government to resist a conquest of Ethiopia by Italy. Italian control over Ethiopia would from some viewpoints be advantageous for Britain. . . . From certain other viewpoints it would not. Speaking in a general sense, as far as local British interests are concerned, it is a matter of indifference whether Ethiopia remains independent or is absorbed by Italy...
There was Three-Fingered Garcia, who could not resist yanking Chinese by their cues before slitting their throats; "Jack William's Ghost," who gave brandy to passengers while he took their riches; Tom Poole, Monterey undersheriff who went bad; Cochise the Apache and his raiding band and, greatest of all, Black Bart...
...Commission to see that the candidates of all parties are afforded equal broadcasting facilities. As yet campaign broadcasting is comparatively young, and the larger radio station owners have not had their partisan animosities seriously aroused. But, if ever such feeling should rise in the future, the American public should resist any effort at repeal of the law as they would an abolition of equal suffrage. An impartial Communications Commission should become as firm an American institution as the Bill of Rights...