Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...participate in this tribute to Mr. Heinz ... to engage in the anniversary of the establishment which has a record of over 60 years of industrial peace. . . . We often tend to forget that the most wonderful and powerful machine in the world is the men and women themselves. . . . Industrial conflict is the greatest waste in industry. . . . The higher purpose of industry is to provide satisfaction of life to human beings. . . . Unless industry makes living men and women and children happier, it cannot excuse its failure by pleading that at least it has kept them alive...
When the mob began indiscriminately to invade rented offices in the building, Reporter Powell's assistant Lester Ziffren ran to the U. S. consulate on another floor, returned with a U. S. flag which he draped over the United Press doorway. ". . . The mob leaders, not wishing to cause a conflict with the U. S., stood by and ordered everything packed up lest it be damaged in the fire and flood which followed ... all we lost . . . was a fountain pen which was picked up by someone and a photograph of Julio Prestes [onetime] president-elect of Brazil [which was confiscated...
...Each Armistice Day reminds us of the World War and the awful toll of death and suffering it brought to all humanity. If we are to avoid another such holocaust and if peace is to be maintained in Europe, a continent now fraught with jealousies and ripe for another conflict, there must be real disarmament. All the treaties and pacts in the world renouncing war will not suffice unless they provide for concrete reductions in military forces by all nations," continued Senator Walsh...
Armistice Day should mean more than parades and mild rejoicing. The haggling of past years has taught the world that the conflict of 1918 was not necessarily a war to end all wars. An estimate of the past is valuable only in as much as it stimulates concern for the future. The true significance of Armistice day will be felt only when the people will mingle the faded memory of a decade ago with an anixous thought for the years that are to come...
...earnestly to roll up the map of Europe forever was followed by a system which several decades later was to leave Europe in the throes of revolution. Disraeli in 1878 said he had won "Peace with honor" for England, and in 40 years she was embroiled in a conflict that struck at the respectability of the world. But out of that conflict there grew an ideal which may become the most constructive plan ever decided upon by a peace conference. Heretofore the tools of peace have been in the hands of individual statesmen: they have now been given to intelligent...