Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cities seemed to him "not far from being industrial ghost cities." In Philadelphia, he found more slums and "the universal fear" that industry would move away. In the shadow of Bethlehem's steel mills he saw "filth and depravity" and the same methods that southern manufacturers use to resist unionization. In Washington, he found statistics to show that "low wages, long hours and primitive working conditions can be found anywhere...
...there were problems. As a trustee of the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund, Dick Whitney in the summer of 1937 handled certain perfectly legal switchings of its portfolio. With the securities in his hands and creditors on every side, Broker Whitney seemingly could not resist the opportunity to hypothecate them for personal loans as he was also doing with the securities of other customers. When Governor Edward H. H. Simmons tried to get the securities back, Dick Whitney stalled for time. Finally Mr. Simmons, who had preceded Whitney as president of the Exchange, forced the issue, got some inkling...
Last weekend the Vagabond set himself for an enormous coverage of work. Divisionals were rolling in, and this was no time to fool around. But when Saturday afternoon had somewhat spent itself in the stacks of Harry's Club, he couldn't resist going down to the old ship-yard just to take a look at his small cruising cutter. There it was tucked away in the corner of the big shed. It's bottom was rough and brown but a little work would fix it up, he thought--as he climbed over the side and stepped quietly into...
...London. The German blood of this Nazi is a good deal colder than the blood of Hitler. In stolid fashion he waited around. After Schuschnigg's broadcast "good-by," Seyss-Inquart kept going on the air by electrical transcription every half-hour or so, asking Austrians not to resist the invading German Army, saying the troops of the Führer would bring "happiness." All he had to do was avoid assassination by anti-Nazis before the arrival of the German Army and Adolf Hitler...
...Kurt von Schuschnigg: anti-Nazi laws would not be too strictly enforced so long as Nazis would not foment any more such plots as that which succeeded four years ago in the brutal murder of Chancellor Dollfuss. Last week Dr. Josef Tavs, the No. 2 Austrian Nazi, could not resist boasting to the correspondent of a Czechoslovak newspaper that he and Captain Josef Leopold, the No. 1 Austrian Nazi, were openly doing Nazi business from an office in the heart of Vienna. When Chancellor Schuschnigg read this in the papers he regretfully parted, with his life insurance, jailed Dr. Tavs...