Word: resister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corrigan-McKinney Steel) told the American Mining Congress that his industry "whole-heartedly approves the President's Recovery program." Steelman Weir was himself one of the first to fall in line last summer. But so long as U. S. steelmasters have an ingot to their names they will resist detested outside (A. F. of L.) unionization of their business. On this issue Founder Weir gave battle. In Washington last October, it was agreed between Weirton Steel and the heads of its Employes Organization and the NRA's Labor Board that Weirton's 12,000 striking workers would...
...possible kind of comfort at every hour of the day and night." Most notable increase is in the number of U. S. words and phrases. "However rude or crude" they might be, said Professor Gordon, "they were so expressive, so impudently near the truth, that it was hard to resist them a place in any honest lexicon." U. S. eyes may note examples from Jack London. George Ade, O. Henry, H. L. Mencken, Zane Grey-even so unliterary an exemplar as the late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some...
Eight other New York banks were able to resist the RFC's passion to become a stockholder because they were state institutions. They compromised by selling the RFC "capital notes." Thus supersolvent Guaranty Trust, already vexed by having more money than it can profitably use, planned to let the Government lend...
...before the Archbishop of York, if someone would supply legal evidence of the Bishop's misdeeds. Exclaimed Lord Hugh: "If a Unitarian may preach under a Bishop's authority, who can reasonably complain about departures from the text of the prayerbook? We shall hardly be able to resist the polemics of the Roman Catholics when they tell us our church is a sect born of schism collapsing in anarchy...
...Emergency Powers Act, urges the British proletariat to be prepared to resist "lest British Fascism come like a thief in the night!" Nationally ready for class war, Labor's Cripps is internationally a pacifist. He induced the last Labor Congress to adopt a motion pledging the Party to refuse to support any British Govern-ment which might make war and to stop hostilities if necessary by organizing a general strike (TIME, Oct. 16). In all recent British by-elections Labor candidates have drawn their loudest cheers by restating variations of this anti-war pledge and Sir Stafford loomed last...