Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not shoot. ... If any gentleman here finds it necessary to take further issue with my honor, let him fire at me. I will not return his fire. I shall not resort to this stupid, inconclusive, and barbaric method of settling a quarrel which has been forced* upon me. I had hoped that because of my services to Poland no Pole would take my life. I have been shot at and missed. Had I shot I would not have missed. But I, for my part, I am unwilling to shoot another Pole...
...involved and of what chances are involved and of what objections are likely to made any by whom. Yet the very foundation of our economic order is certainly and uniformity. When the legal system fails to provide for new business institutions of new business methods the tendency is to resort to legislation or to provide lay tribunals, as many states are doing through arbitration statutes or to set up new administrative tribunals...
...This arrangement lasted until April 30, when the workers agreed to accept the recommendations of the Commission, but all that Baldwin offered them was a program of wage reduction and longer hours with no guarantee of future betterment. Negotiations failed and the workers were forced to resort to the general strike...
Instead of a boarding house the author has selected a summer-resort hotel as the background of his philosophy. Again he features a nosey, flighty spinster. This one is particularly interested in males, especially males in whom other females are interested. Opposed to her in the play's development is a sensible artists' model, possessing a maximum of feminine charm and amiability. This part is most agreeably played by Joan Maclean...
...Governor, I shall be glad to cooperate in every way within my power to bring about a settlement of the strike. But I will not be coerced or cajoled into sending the armed forces of the state into the strike zone except as a last resort, and that only when I am convinced that such action is necessary to preserve law and order...