Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Defense, declared that "serious differences are brewing with England over shipping policies." This was a bugaboo so preposterous that Secretary Hughes saw fit to deny it promptly. Among his other ideas Admiral Phelps included a strange one, indeed: "These differences can be prevented from developing into a conflict only by a strong navy." Bismarck himself seems to be speaking. Yet the psychologists say that man learns from experience! Perhaps Admiral Phelps has forgotten those days before the war when nations piled up armament--all in the name of peace...
...Coolidge, but diverge largely from those of the farm bloc who wish price-fixing or other forms of direct aid for farmers. In appearing before Committees of Congress on behalf of the report of the President's Agricultural Conference (TIME, Jan. 26), Mr. Jardine has already entered into conflict with some members. He is an agronomist, not a legislator. If his appointment is confirmed, more conflicts between Congress and the Executive over agricultural projects are likely to be forthcoming...
...Clive, as Androcles, had an opportunity to prove his tremendous capacity for character interpretation, which he had modestly foregone hitherto this season. Between the two scenes of sheer fooling, comes a difficult serious scene of Thesis and argument between Layinia and the Captain of the Guard, presenting the conflict between the spiritual and the temporal in long speeches which taxed Miss Standing and Mr. Mowbray to the utmost. Their handling of the situation was altogether commendable...
...represented at the Holy See; and what they want the Government must sooner or later give them. There is equally no doubt that many French Catholics abhor clerical interference in State matters as much as the anticlerical Government; and it is thus apparent that there is no conflict of interest in maintaining national representation at the court of the Pope and denying Catholic clergy in France the right of playing politics...
...series of travel articles about his recent trip around the world before he attempts an-other long story. Meanwhile, he intends writing more soldier stories; for not only is he a veteran of the Spanish War, but he was an Artillery Captain in France during the late conflict...