Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn Eagle Gannett comes into possession not only of a printing plant but also of a fine tradition. Although the circulation of the Eagle is relatively small -around 80,000- and does not conflict with that of the Manhattan dailies, its editorial influence has been considerable for many decades. Walt Whitman wrote editorials for the Eagle in 1846-48; among its editors and critics have been many great names. Most recently, Dr. St. Clair McKelway, editor-in-chief up to his death in 1915, brought distinction to the paper...
...Civil War. "I hear America singing" is the marking on the score and what Bloch hears he repeats-snatches of old Negro songs, of "Old Folks at Home," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Hail Columbia," "John Brown's Body," the "Battle Cry of Freedom," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." There is conflict then driving the music on to another loud climax. The theme again is "America" but it is mournful and bleeding now until the third movement, "1926," takes it up again and syncopates it. Then comes speed, prosperity. Man is the slave of machines. It is the age of materialism...
John Wesley, staunch Tory supporter of Church and King, had not intended that his Methodist societies conflict with the established religion. But established religion had lost its virility to an "age of reason," and Wesley hoped to counter this "deathly decorum" with a revival of mysticism and emotionalism. Throughout England, therefore, he organized societies with the sole condition of membership "a desire to flee from the wrath to come...
Finally, however, Bolivia did accept the "good offices" of the Pan-American Conference for an investigation of the origin of the conflict...
Among other instances cited during the debate and discussion on the subject "The influence of the Press as a Cause of International Conflict", the action of the Hearst papers during the Spanish-American war was especially viewed with disapprobation. The representative papers of the individual countries were laid open to investigation and severe criticism, and the policy of strict censorship followed by Mussolini which allows at the same time the invasion of diplomatic relations with both France and Switzerland...