Word: resister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Porsgrund two destroyers, two minelayers, a company of the Royal Guard, a machine gun battery and police bomb squads. Not content with even these precautions, Premier Kolstad called conscripts in and around Porsgrund, thereby compelling a majority of the 1,000 strikers into the Norwegian Army. Should they resist further, they could be shot as deserters...
American Federation of Labor, began to talk publicly about strikes. Said he: "We feel we are being driven to the point where we must resist attempts to reduce wages, even though it may be necessary for workers to go on strike." At the White House conferences in the first days of the Depression, Mr. Green had pledged Labor not to strike for higher pay in return for Industry's promise to maintain existing wage scales. Now he suspected Industry of beginning to break its promise. He felt labor would thus be automatically released from its no-strike pledge. Cited...
...Gaynor, took back nothing when Gaynor died (Sept. 12, 1913). Cobb wrote: "What the World said of William J. Gaynor . . . after Tammany had refused to renominate him for Mayor, it desires to repeat now. . . . Had the Mayor been able to control himself as sturdily as he was able to resist control from the outside he would be a commanding figure. . . . " More violently, William Allen White wrote: "Frank Munsey, the great publisher, is dead [Dec. 22, 1925]. Frank Munsey contributed to the journalism of his day the talent of a meatpacker, the morals of a money changer and the manners...
...greatly inconvenience their studying. The bank wished to change the dormitory into an apartment house because of the lowered demand for rooms with the putting into operation of the House Plan. The occupants of the dormitory had the law clearly on their side and for that reason determined to resist expulsion since it would have been so detrimental to them...
...Hilaire Belloc is pretty sure that steamships and locomotives would be still figments of diseased imaginations if Louis XVI had escaped at Varenne's. Emil Ludwig gives a very interesting description of Germany if the Emperor Frederick had not died of cancer in 1888. Unfortunately he is unable to resist the temptation for cheap dramatic effect to which he so frequently falls a prey even in what one might call his more scholarly commentaries. He allows Kaiser William II to assume the throne August 1, 1914 amidst "peace and prosperity...