Word: unyieldingness
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"no change in the company's method of issuing statements." Thwarted, Mr. Gerard departed with probably as much information as he expected to get. For he had had to ask his questions of a vice president who presided, and it is well known that no one has the prerogative...
This raised a howl from railroad labor. After an all-day session the Association of Railroad Labor Executives trumpeted: "The organized railway employes announce their unyielding opposition to every program for increasing unemployment . . . by either reducing work or cutting wages. . . . Every measure of so-called 'economy' which reduces...
Converse with 74-year-old Yukio Ozaki, former Mayor of Tokyo and member of the Diet since that body first met in 1890, is made difficult by the fact that he is nearly stone deaf. But there is nothing the matter with his foresight. Far clearer than most of his...
A resourceful and unyielding fighter, Abbott Lawrence Lowell is dominantly a gentlemen of intact and abiding convictions. Opposition to his administrative projects or personal beliefs has but served to strengthen his purpose. A house plan ridiculed became to him a house plan imperatively demanding realization and justification. Abuse of Harvard...
The president has to date been more moderate and more intelligent than Congress in his stand on cancellation and reduction, an has once again demonstrated his reasonableness by his message to Roosevelt. Simultaneously with his invitation there appeared the report of the Sloan Committee, advocating another postponement and a reconsideration...