Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hahn termed the committee's conflict with the Council this fall as "a bit of confusion," and said the line between the functions of the two groups was too vague. He said the report should help remedy this situation...
...With more men than Giap, with an abundance of U.S. equipment, with an overwhelming superiority in guns and planes, the French, instead of ranging all over the map as Giap is doing, seem to be handicapped by the bunker-or Maginot-mentality. In the high command there is a conflict of personalities: two four-star generals, Linares and Salan, competing for military advantage. What France badly needs is another De Lattre, one who knows'how to use the material at hand...
...unions organized on the industrial principle. Lewis in 1935 forced the creation of the A.F.L.'s Committee for Industrial Organization. Phil Murray was delegated to organize the steel industry, the key to the struggle. In two hectic and memorable years, Murray achieved essential success in steel. The inevitable conflict with the craft unions grew sharper, and in 1938 the A.F.L. expelled the industrial unions. The new grouping changed its name to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, named as its president John L. Lewis, as its vice president Phil Murray...
...first chapter, called Design for War, shows the first feeble, then gradually stronger Allied efforts to beat off Nazi U-boat wolf packs. It leaps breathlessly back & forth between British film and captured German footage. The effect is to personalize the battle. The war becomes a stirring conflict between a Nazi submarine captain, gloating over a new kill as he downs periscope, and a half-drowned British mariner, hauled oil-covered from the wreckage of his torpedoed tanker...
Sharp philosophical conflict and intense debate featured last night's Law School Forum on "Men and Morals...