Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Causes of the conflict were President de Valera's attempt to abolish the Free State Dail's oath of fealty to George V (an attempt thus far blocked by the Free State Senate) and secondly Mr. de Valera's nonpayment of the so-called "Irish annuities" - sums which the pre ious Free State Government of President William Thomas Cosgrave paid to compensate absentee landlords living in Britain for their former Irish estates. From the first President de Valera offered to arbitrate this issue before a tribunal not exclusively composed of the King's subjects, and from...
...acrimonious Wet v. Dry conflict, is to be found in Commander Clark's preface to the Crusader book: "There are three sides to the Liquor Problem. The Dry Side, the Wet Side and the Right Side! . . . The new Crusader ... is going to make every possible effort to get the old temperance forces to cooperate with him in his present challenge to the speakeasy, the bootlegger, the corrupt politician and the gangster! He believes that when sincere temperance people understand his motives they will back his Crusade, since the principles he stands for are practically the same code...
...those whose business it was fifteen years ago to raise hatred to its worst pitch, this book has every moral sanction in its favor. Everything in it is true, everything is from the pens of those who saw war, or from the cameras which recorded the ghastliness of conflict for the official files of the belligerent powers. As a record of how revolting and how gruesome fighting can be the book has tremendous power to prevent future disasters...
Superficially, the story of the book springs from the social conflict between the Irish immigrants living in Scotland, and the native Scots, though the equation of antagonistic stocks is quickly abandoned for the familiar and more personal geometry of the triangle. "Three Loves" is really the story of a woman whose impulsive nature is excited into jealousy by an ambiguous though fundamentally innocent relationship between her husband and his cousin. The manner in which one such ambiguity generates another, and ends by alienating the heroine from her husband, from her son, and finally from the religion in which...
...been offered by those in opposition to the Liberal Club policy for next year. They seem forced to confine their attack to a criticism of Communism. If the Liberal Club's new policy of creating study and research groups, publishing a magazine, organizing field trips to scenes of industrial conflict, having not only liberal but also radical and conservative speakers, etc., is Communistic, then we think there are a lot of Communists in Harvard. At least that is the only way we can explain the great interest in the Club since the new policy was proposed...