Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the arrival of his coffin would start riots in the chief cities of Parahyba. Joao Pessoa was buried last week, not in Parahyba where he lived, or in Pernambuco where he died, but in Rio de Janeiro, 1,200 mi. removed from the scene of the Pessoa-Pereira conflict...
...vital in the Russian manner, this ought to be important. It fails because, as usual, the makers have loaded on a dismal weight of propaganda. Hero is Kevebel Kima, a long haired, slant-eyed native of that swamp- land past the Siberian frontiers called Taiga. The theme is the conflict between the native's devotion to his tribal law, which stipulates that possession is a sacred right of the possessor, and the Soviet dicta that possession is the right of the neediest. Less stylized and re- lieved of its propaganda content, the feud between Kima and a rich local...
Thus a fair prospect of a truce in the West Coast oil war was born last week. Just why Standard of California should belittle the conflict as "the so-called price war" was not clear. The war scattered gasoline prices on the Pacific Coast over a range of from 9? to 19½? per gallon. It caused gasoline to be sold last week in San Francisco for 7?, in Los Angeles for 6?, in Tacoma for 8?, and in Seattle for nothing-an enthusiastic dealer giving away five gallons of gas to every motorist who had his oil changed...
...prosperity of our state." The Macmillan expectations were not disappointed: sales fell off less than 3% after the price rise. President Raymond S. Macmillan announced his resolve to stick to his price until the end of the war. Meantime, Director Herbert H. Macmillan asked for Federal intervention in the conflict...
...Malo, St. John's College, Oxford, founded the Oxonian weekly, The Tuesday Review. Later he came to the U. S., divided his two years here between writing two novels and playacting. Other books: The Compleat Oxford Man, Cheadle and Son, Rowlandson's Oxford (history). The Hour of Conflict, The Persistent Lovers, Bluebottles, Gunfodder, Soundings, Labels, Harness...