Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, Ritchie's hostility to the growth of Federal power and his loyalty to the theory of decentralization brings him into conflict with prohibition. Here his attitude differs sharply from the attitude expressed by Governor Smith in his last message to the State Legislature of New York. Smith argued that prohibition is a Federal matter; ergo, there is no reason for a State enforcement act. On the other hand, Ritchie argues--consistently with his theory of State rights--that prohibition is a matter with which the Federal Government has not legitimate concern under a truly Federal system, and that...
...their friends would probably make up a tenth of the spectators in the stadium. Both myself and the secretary of the Alumni Association feel that if the undergraduates can get any fun out of watching football games they should be accommodated in so far as they do not conflict with our other plans...
...when the two rivals meet in the Commonwealth Armory this evening. The game, which marks the peak of the local indoor polo season, is scheduled to begin at 7.30 o'clock, and the six chukkers will be hustled through as rapidly as possible, so that the event will not conflict with the hockey game later in the evening...
Looking eastward, residents of the Mississippi Basin saw another spectacle, at Washington. After months of wrangling, a committee of the House last week reported a flood-control measure to Congress. But the smoke of conflict, instead of trailing away, was just beginning to thicken. "The greatest fight this session" instead of a national necessity was what Congress was prepared to supply...
...loans to the British Continent of the South Pacific, now at. a total of over $200,000,000, give the three parties a community of political interest in case of war on the Pacific; doubtless, in case of emergency, this tie would play its diplomatic role in preventing a conflict. It is by such co-operation between the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank that great political ends are achieved...