Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the benevolent eye of William Howard Taft for the express purpose of answering the old question: "What does business think?" The answer is that business seldom agrees on any but the broadest and vaguest questions. The legislative interests of one company, of one industry, may directly conflict with those of a dozen others. Lately the Chamber has been criticized for representing only small commercial enterprises. Only last month it was learned that the Automobile Manufacturers Association had transferred its allegiance from the Chamber to the more congenial National Association of Manufacturers...
...directly faced with the issue backed down. It is an attitude which has embarrassed both the administration and the State Department. In the particular case of the Italo-Ethiopian crisis President Roosevelt, strongly backed by tremendous public opinion which denied or relinquished any, and every, entangling interest in the conflict, applied embargoes on munitions of war and warned passengers travelling on belligerent vessels that they did so at their own risk. No effort was spared to avoid any possible friction which might unduly antagonize American opinion. That effort has continued up to the past week when the Ethiopians were forced...
Political Institutional Development: Wilbur C. Abbott, The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell; Paul R. Doolin, The Constitutional Conflict in France in the 17th and 18th Centuries; Donald C. McKay, A History of the Third French Republic, 1871-1914; Charles H. Taylor, Representative Practices in 13th Century France; and Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., Judicial Review of Legislation by the Supreme Court...
...high-minded Congress of the U. S. resolved that the people of Cuba "are and of a right ought to be, free and independent." To prove that this declaration was not empty rhetoric, the U. S. soon thereafter went to war with Spain. Results of that 100-day conflict: 1) Cuba got its independence, 2) the U. S. paid Spain $20,000,000 as a fair price for the Philippines, 3) Spain handed over to the U. S. as an indemnity the Islands of Puerto Rico and Guam, 4) the Era of Manifest Destiny dawned as the U. S. launched...
...women pacifists, this sketch of the world in 1985 is a bitter indictment of male stupidity. Author Ertz foresees a civilization which has mastered the art of living but still resorts to war. Following the use of a new type of poison gas in a short but destructive international conflict, all females but one die of a mysterious disease, leaving the men in wild despair. The accidental survivor becomes queen of England and hope of the world...