Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President William Green. His peace terms, said strong John Lewis would be: 1) reinstatement of suspended C. L O. unions; 2) A. F. of L. consent to the organization of U. S. mass-production workers in industrial unions. Since the fight was about nothing but the conflict of C. I. O. industrial unions with A. F. of L. craft unions, Leader Lewis thus proposed to A. F. of L. not compromise but complete surrender...
...Tercentenary celebration was held in September, presumably to avoid conflict with the national election and the academic work of the college...
Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll are the couple who gratify the terror-hungry spectators with the highly embarrassing jams they get into. It's all the outcome of Madeleine's getting started on the wrong side. To please her flabby, moribund father (Porter Hall), she agrees, in bitter conflict with the latent notability, in her, to lure Gary and his belt full of the people's money into the grasping yellow hands of General Yang, war lord and fiendish oppressor of some unnamed Chinese province. Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife...
...entry into the World War as an illustration. He ends his grisly volume with an account of the cost of the World War (his estimate is $400,000,000,000) and a warning to his hypothetical audience of powerful individuals on the cost of another such conflict to them. Between these two points he has compressed into 243 pages an inclusive study of war propaganda, a rapid but convincing survey of innovations in warfare finance, an exposition of the fallacies underlying the idea that the defeated force can be made to pay the cost of War. While he discounts lurid...
...poet who was once a leader in the Dada and surrealist movements. Laid in pre-War France, it deals with the careers of a fashionable courtesan, a rebellious daughter of a Russian émigré, a revolutionist, includes some vivid scenes of social corruption, some dim ones of social conflict...