Word: resister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that agency, an extra-legal body backed only by the President's prestige, given authority to force settlements in the backwash of NRA code-making. The Ford and coal strikes exemplified the stubborn militancy of Labor to overreach itself, the stubborn militancy of Capital to resist to the limit...
...throughout, expounding and amplifying it. In several cases He quoted the words of Moses and set against them His own principles, thus: "Ye have heard that it hath been said. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you. That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. . . . Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them...
...Mahatma's hands. Before he began to speak such action seemed impossible. The committee knew that Viceroy Willingdon, a sahib of iron will, has refused to treat with either the Congress or with Mr. Gandhi until his followers formally abandon mass civil disobedience. Nonetheless the committee could not resist the Mahatma. By an overwhelming majority, they appointed Mr. Gandhi to treat with Lord Willingdon, resolved that mass civil disobedience shall continue until an "honorable settlement" is reached. They made the Mahatma sole judge of what sort of settlement would be "honorable." Jubilant, Mr. Gandhi babbled, "If the Viceroy refuses...
...Budapest. Longtime admirer of Italy's Benito Mussolini, Julius Gömbös formed an anti-Semitic society called the "Awakening Magyars'' during the tangled Hungarian intrigues after the war. He renounced anti-Semitism when he became Prime Minister last September, has since tried to resist the tide of anti-Semitism rolling into Hungary from Nazi Germany, which friends last week blamed for the untimely death (she was not 40) of Irene Gömbös-Jewish daughter of a Jewish champagne manufacturer. Died. Louis M. Kotecki, 51, Milwaukee City Comptroller, indicted four months...
Because bitter experience of a generation is not inherited, patriotism will live on. Individuals cannot resist the call of martial trumpets. Patriotism cannot be outlawed, but war can through the patient efforts of skillful unselfish diplomats using the facts of economic interdependance for their operations...