Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move lay a growing conviction that labor's six-year record of growth was genuinely imperiled by labor's split. Good union men could look skeptical while businessmen complained loudly about the cost of A. F. of L.C. I. O. conflict. They could listen, polite but unimpressed, while politicians shuddered and sighed over the fearful feud of Bill Green and John Lewis. Last week Son Elliott Roosevelt talked long and earnestly over the radio about the Chrysler strike, suggested that John Lewis' inability to make peace with Bill Green indicated he was not all "he had been...
...some-notably Dr. Fosdick-have sworn off for life. Dr. Manning, now Bishop of New York, has kept his guns oiled, said recently: "A Christian cannot be neutral between right and wrong. . . . Right is more important than peace. . . . What our ultimate duty as a nation may be if the conflict is prolonged...
...Melville contracts to take most (now 92%) of McElwain's yearly output, to be sold through its 652 Thom McAn chain stores. Under the plan the factory sold shoes to the distributor at cost, took a percentage of net profits from sales. This streamlined combine, which eliminated all conflict between the two main branches of an industry, did away with the expense of changing over machines, putting new models of shoes into production. It never failed to show a profit. Its boast was that neither half of the partnership had any control over the other. Last week that boast...
...describes the conflict ever the dismissal last Spring of the assistant professors as "the natural result of six years of continued administrative friction and growing distrust of the policies in force...
...declaring that a state of thinly veiled conflict, the outbreak of which into actual war is only just suppressed, is not true peace. Mere absence of war is not His will for us nor our greatest good...