Word: resister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life, the pyjama Senators and boy-friend Mayors, the antics of the war veterans seem to put to the blush the wildest acts of self-seeking politicians. In the West the contingents Washington-bound have commandeered trains, interfered with the passage of United States' mail, and forced police to resist them openly. In New York they have stolen a ferry, and intimidated government officials into providing them with transportation. The threat of violence, always only implied, but ever present, has everywhere extorted food and shelter from the communities through which the veterans are passing. As a result of their efforts...
...General Honjo [Japanese Commander in Chief in Manchuria] told me that Japan was fully prepared to resist Russia in the north with the full strength of the Japanese army, and to resist America to the east with the full strength of the Japanese navy. All schemes and plans for defense against Japan's two major potential enemies have been worked out and are ready to be made immediately effective in case of necessity...
...Frederick was carried off, beaten badly, thrown from an automobile near the college hospital where he later admitted the kidnapping and shooting. Freed under bond, he pleaded self-defense. Said he: "I don't see what else I could have done." Mary Butterfield, who had not tried to resist, said the kidnappers promised to return her before the ball ended. "I got a big kick out of it," said she. After the shooting: "I think it's awful...
...Empire State Building and nucleus of his holding company, Starrett Corp. As chairman of the War Industries Board's construction committee, Builder Starrett directed the erection of all cantonments, hospitals. Army bases in the U. S. To Japan he introduced special teel frame buildings designed to resist arthquakes. An articulate champion of all structures, he wrote Skyscrapers and he Men Who Build Them...
...idea behind Night Over Taos is that the course of youth and growth should not be checked by age and tradition. The scene is the Taos of 1847, last stand of Castilian feudality before the rising tide of Northern conquest. Old Pablo Montoya (J. Edward Bromberg) has resolved to resist the Gringo invasion to the last ditch, to protect his lands and the imperious institutions in which he believes. As a result of his convictions, he kills one son for treating with the enemy, almost kills another who is in love with the girl whom Pablo has decided to take...