Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Machine-minded LaFollette has, apparently, decided to crush all vestiges of individual liberalism within his state. The conflict with President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin destroys what favorable connotations the label "progressive" may still have in the minds of balanced thinkers. Fragmentary reports indicate the resemblance of this clash to some of Governor Curley's ridiculous excesses on Beacon Hill. Dominated by LaFollette appointees, the Board of Regents has been summoned to dismiss President Frank. The Governor and his adherents, it is said are worried about radicalism at the University. A five man investigating committee has suggested that...
...intolerance of the Spaniards embroiled in the fratricidal strife has become so intense that an impartial foreigner cannot be friendly with two Spaniards whose political beliefs are even slightly in conflict. There is no freedom whatever allowed journalistic investigation and the strictest censorship imaginable is imposed on all news dispatches sent out from Madrid...
...what changes the mysterious withdrawal of Harvard's Whistler will have wrought. His flight from Harvard caused regret among many students and gave rise to renewed criticism of the administration. It would seem that nothing can be done now to right the wrong in Mr. De Voto's apparent conflict with the University last spring...
...French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos when he announced last week: "The accord of Germany and Japan is inspired by a crusading spirit which France, like England and all countries desirous of peace, refuses to accept. France does not wish to add to the all-too-real causes for conflict...
...aroused the indignation of many others at the beginning of the war by predicting the fight would be long and hard. Everyone seemed to believe it would be a question of two or three weeks. I was right. And I believe it again safe to say that the conflict will extend at least through December, January and February and enter a far more intensive stage than the present battle for Madrid...