Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Harcourt Morgan and I are gratified at the outcome of this negotiation," said David Lilienthal. "This contract encourages me to believe that in the near future in other pending situations in the Tennessee Valley region, contracts of this character may likewise take the place of litigation and conflict, so that all of us can devote ourselves wholly to constructive work...
...shining exception to this pattern of War fiction is Arnold Zweig's The Case of Sergeant Grischa. It is an old-fashioned moral study, and Author Zweig is almost the only War novelist for whom armed conflict is only a part of the war between good & evil that rages as fiercely when the guns are silent. Last week Author Zweig published the fourth volume of Grischa's moral story. A long and involved book called The Crowning of a King, it deals, superficially, with the intrigues of the German general staff over the selection of a king...
...dead German deserter. He was caught and sentenced to be shot for desertion. Grischa proved his identity, was nevertheless ordered shot in his false identity as a German deserter. Gradually, as one soldier after another was shocked at the injustice, his case became the centre of a major conflict. A sergeant tried to save him, then a lieutenant, finally a general. They compromised their army careers, suffered the constant temptation to let the whole affair go. When millions of men were dying, what difference did the death of one more make...
...tell. The story, told in Dynamite and here expanded, is that of the McNamara case and the Syndicalist dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in 1910. For Adamic, who heard the story from an old Socialist in 1928, violence "à la McNamara" is the chart that explains the conflict between Capital & Labor, between Right & Left, together with all other U. S. Sargassoan social incongruities. Put simply, says Adamic, "there is entirely too much snarling and snorting." It was this discovery that determined Adamic to steer clear of all political entanglements, all fighting provocations. Threatened, for example, by violent fellow...
...Committee in charge expects that the drive will be finished within a week so that there will be no conflict with examination period. In the event that the amount raised is not enough to buy an ambulance, the money will be used to send medical supplies to the American hospital in Spain which needs help badly at the present time...