Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigate grievances and arrange for collective bargaining conferences with employers; 2) to hold workers' elections to determine what organization will represent what workers-the majority-organization to represent all. The strike, he said, should be indefinitely postponed and, if the steel industry accepted these terms, canceled. With unwonted vigor Mr. Green turned on the delegates and declared: "I insist upon your acting favorably upon this proposition." They did-with only a murmur of dissent. Highly pleased, Messrs. Green and Tighe entrained for Washington to put the union's offer to Madam Secretary Perkins and the President. Said...
...eyed Dictator, each stern to the point of glowering. For the first time on record the unruly lock of hair which normally hangs forward over Adolf Hitler's brow was seen to have been neatly pomaded back. Smack!-Dictator Mussolini, now all smiles after shaking hands with effusive vigor, flung his left arm around Herr Hitler in a half embrace. Meanwhile the second German plane coasted in. and out bustled pompous Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath with a staff of high-collared experts. After ear-splitting national anthems. Mussolini linked his arm with Hitler...
...Government is determined that no person or group of persons shall usurp the functions of the State," declared Sir John, referring to the Mosley blackshirts who seized hecklers at Olympia with policemanly vigor and threw them outside to be arrested by Sir John's Bobbies. Later he said: "The Government has decided that alterations in the law shall be made to give uniformed policemen the right to attend any meeting at which they have reason to anticipate disorder...
...demanded a concentration on the ideas contained therein, he had little use for scholars who concern themselves primarily with sources and textual criticism." This may have caused him to miss the value of some literature, but this belief made him "restore to literary criticism some of the verve and vigor that it had long ceased to possess." His austerity came through his belief that his position could not be otherwise in a world of emotion and sentimentality...
...welcome of the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" to Boston Harbor on May 17 promised to be an admirable opportunity for these cozy little factions to display their spiritual vigor. Representatives of all were gathered early near the Navy Yard and a few practice volleys of harmless but obscene insults were exchanged as the agitators limbered...