Word: suasion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy and Ethiopia of arms, ammunition or implements of war, warned U. S. citizens that they traded with or traveled on ships of the belligerents at their risk (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week the President decided to go beyond the powers given him by Congress to use moral suasion. At a press conference he issued a delicately worded statement repeating what he had said before, with a difference...
...David Louis Behncke v. United Air Lines. Pilot Behncke had complained that he had been dismissed by the air line for his activities in behalf of the pilots' union of which he was president (TIME, Jan. 22). While the National Labor Board has nothing more potent than moral suasion and the prestige of President Roosevelt with which to enforce its decisions, United Air Lines announced that Pilot Behncke could go back to work whenever he shows up at Chicago headquarters...
...would be borne by the Treasury. It was about time, thought U. S. investors, that President Roosevelt's personal representative in Havana, hard, able Mr. Jefferson Caffery, put through a little "garage diplomacy."* Mr. Caffery had not been idle. Shifting from President Grau, on whom he first used suasion, he conferred repeatedly last week with Cuba's bantam generalissimo, ex-Sergeant Fulgencio Batista who commands the entire army with the modest rank of Colonel. According to correspondents, "Caffery read the riot act to Batista." Out to the army post at Camp Columbia hurried Batista and most of Cuba...
...been working to weed out these national committeemen ever since the administration promised to "clean up the G. O. P. south" in 1929. But after a ballot behind closed doors the national committee voted to seat Messrs. Tolbert and Howard, first sign of Old Guard recalcitrance to White House suasion...
...done by a "central thinking agency." Unfortunately, it would be only an advisory body to whisper in the ear of Big Business. Ideal as this method might seem to the magnate, history and experience surely point out that an advisory agency could never win enough support by gentle suasion to untangle the knots with which conflicting interests bind the commerce of the nation...