Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have always been proud, as a nation, of our peaceful character, and of our unwillingness to turn to violence until all other methods of settlement have been exhausted. But in strange contradiction to this, we have too often shown our readiness, in domestic matters, to resort far too hastily to extreme measures...
Poland seems to be indulging in a private war of her own against the Bolsheviki. Though we deplore a resort to arms, except in the last extremity, our sympathy goes out to that unfortunate little nation. It is certain that site must have considered her very existence to be jeopardized, otherwise she would scarcely have risked incurring the permanent enmity of so powerful a neighbor...
Enforcement of the decrees of the board is left in the last resort to public opinion. This is infinitely preferable to any attempt to take away the "right to strike": and as the machinery of the adjustment boards begins to function, it is to be expected that an increasing proportion of labor disputed will be settled as most of them are at present, without an open break. But when the break comes, and public opinion begins to exert its pressure, it is of the last importance that an impartial board's report should be at hand by which people...
...been taxed beyond endurance by industrial quarrels which have been unnecessarily begun, unduly protracted, and settled only in a way which leaves an open road for future trouble. If some impartial authority can be created to end this state of affairs, the country will be only too ready to resort to it. The difficulty, however, lies in the word "impartial." Both Capital and Labor, by reason of their long sojourn in an atmosphere of bitterness and antagonism, have come to distrust one another in an unreasoning way which is hard to remove. There will be great difficulty in persuading either...
This plan is only a temporary make-shift, and it has been some years since the crews have had to resort to it. although in former years they have used the Farragut Boat Club's house, this year they are unable to do so because the snow crushed in the roof and made the boat house unfit for present use. As soon as the Charles is open, however, the crews will resume regular practice without the inconvenience of going to Lynn...