Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mrs. Rumsey's Consumer's Board was revealed as a battlefield in which a clash of ideas had virtually stalemated its activities. Though Mrs. Rumsey was the daughter of the late great Railroader Edward Henry Harriman and founded the socialite Junior League, she is no conservative social idler. An ardent liberal with Democratic leanings, she believes in a co-operative commonwealth and the utmost protection for consumers against industrial profiteering. To her board was appointed Professor William Fielding Ogburn, University of Chicago sociologist who worked on Herbert Hoover's mammoth social trends survey. When...
...company union, told its workers to sign up, picked representatives for them to elect as officers. Simultaneously United Mine Workers began a membership drive among Frick employes. Fortnight ago unionized miners held a protest parade at Maxwell. Deputy sheriffs hired by Frick Coke tossed tear bombs, provoked a clash. That started the strike which spread until last week 15,000 soft coal miners were out in Pennsylvania. When United Mine officials volunteered to negotiate a strike settlement, U. S. Steel flatly refused to dicker with them...
...after the House Masters at Harvard have virtually begged to have beer in the Dining Halls and it is known that some of the highest officials in University Hall see no objections, nothing has been done. Much talk was made about getting a license quietly to avoid open clash with local merchants and people who have not sympathy for the College because educational institutions are not required to pay taxes...
Surprisingly after this clash M. Bonnet and Le Gouverneur managed to reach agreement. Fiscal experts of the U. S., British and French delegations paved the way to peace among their chiefs by deciding that, in their opinion, it should be possible promptly to peg the dollar, the pound, the franc. Since this was the main thing France wanted, M. Bonnet was soon exclaiming "We love Le Gouverneur...
...last clash of the team as a unit will probably take place at Philadelphia, when they will band together with a Yale team to meet the combined Oxford-Cambridge forces on July 13, 14, and 15. On this occasion, three men will be selected from each college, thus making two six-man teams, although each college will be allowed to keep in reserve one extra player. At present there is some doubt as to who will play in number two position, both Arensberg and Ray contesting for the position...