Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cried with obvious reference to the City: "There is an influential section of our own financial and political leaders and our British munitions magnates who in their hearts are siding with Hitler. Such men in England are already wondering if they, too, won't be obliged to resort to the methods of the present German Government to control the British working class...
...stand it would take on the tide of strikes sweeping the land. William Green, president, cautioned all workers as follows: "The right to strike is fundamental. It is legally and morally right. . . . But it involves so many serious considerations that it ought to be utilized as a last resort. ... I glory in the fighting spirit of the working people. ... I urge all workers who have grievances to make use of [the National Labor Board] before resorting to the extreme action of striking...
...Roosevelt had the temerity to tell us he believed neither in our desire to achieve financial soundness nor in the possibility of defending our gold standard. He hopes we will resort to inflation. He is unable to understand the repugnance felt by all social classes in France to the attitude of financial drifting which would lead to inflation. But action is necessary. "Let us not forget that since April, 1932, successive governments have solicited 32,000,000,000 francs in new bond issues. We cannot continue to live like privledged sons on borrowed money...
...Munsey's" and willing to confess that the moral which once accompanied every lurid fable had slipped his memory. So, conscious of the error of his ways, he abandons his golden dream, his plans for the future of the Harvard Critic, and return to "Fanny Hill," the only safe resort of those in search of literary excitement...
...worked better than others, that knots and kinks were inevitable. He was not discouraged by last week's slack-off. If one method of relief failed, he was willing to shift nimbly to something else, improvising as he went along. Currency inflation he still regarded as a last resort, to be used only in the event of a major business relapse. He did not propose to waste his best ammunition now simply because his front lines were slowing down in their advance...