Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glover, to a last-minute conference at the Pentagon. It, too, was fruitless. Five o'clock passed and the strike order still stood. Then Royall and Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison hurried off to Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who had agreed to stand by in his chambers. Just three weeks ago, Judge Goldsborough had slapped fines of $1,420,000 on John L. Lewis and the U.M.W. It took him only a few minutes to issue a temporary order against the brotherhoods. Hours later the word went out to the nation's railroaders to stay...
...debated as though millions were listening. Cried a redheaded delegate from Michigan: "I don't want a cheap, lousy, vote-seeking bourgeois platform!" They sang the Internationale, spoke fiercely against the Communists, the Republicans and the Democrats, publicly pitied Henry Wallace.They argued wildly as to whether they should stand for pacifism, decided against...
...advice to 500 members and guests of Chicago's Art Directors Club, in annual meeting: "The first thing you should do is forget that you're artists . . . you're only the hands of the machine and you know there's nothing in America that can stand up against the machine. If you were 'Art Directors' . . . you would put the machine in its place . . . You all use your work for comfort. There's no beauty or truth in it ... What is there you really reverence? ... Is there anything in God's name...
...FRANKFURT, German Pastor Martin Niemoller elaborated on his recent stand against denazification laws (TIME, Feb. 16). Only the churches could do such a job, he said: "A deep ideological change can come about only through the Gospel and the grace of the Holy Spirit. You cannot change an ideology by laws." In the hands of the courts, he said, the whole process has become a legalistic mechanism which promotes self-righteousness and "prevents the teachings of the Gospel on guilt and forgiveness from sinking into the minds of the Germans...
Only a limited number of New Yorker parodies have been printed, but 'Poon officials stand ready to bring out extra issues if the demand exceeds the supply...