Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most notable conflict of principle is that which exists between the President and nearly all of his chief fiscal officers. At the Treasury, there is no Secretary; William Hartman Woodin continues sick. Acting Secretary Acheson carries on under obvious strain while rubber-dollar professors get the ear of the President. Banker Bruere, appointed to co-ordinate credit activities, is, in one commentator's phrase, "outstared" by huge-framed Jesse Jones...
...Murray gave a pragmatic reply. He threatened to call out the state militia if the Secretary disturbed his "uneconomic" constituents. There is no essential difference between Governor Murray's threat and the threat of Jefferson Davis to the Union in 1860. Washington used another word then, but the conflict of individual and national interests is substantially the same in either case. Governor Murray is a constitutional lawyer of great ability and vision. He realizes that the proud boast of James M. Beck that we have no administrative law is a medal with two sides, and that it would be quite...
...move which strengthens the Soviet brings closer the day when Russia will find it possible to resume a military interest in the disposition of northeastern Asia. The conflict over this territory is an historic one and has quieted down in the last few years only because of Russia's inability to resist...
...have grown so accustomed to thinking of war as a highly mechanized and incredibly expensive enterprise that many a sober fellow, among them your columnist, has doubted the economic possibility of a European conflict. Pondering excessively, I am unable to see that the credit agencies, governmental and private, which assisted in the confection of the World War could come to the front again, as so many observers are willing to predict, for their zeal has cooled and their money is padlocked, and mere subsistence is difficult for them. The kind of war which we spell with a capital letter...
...moribund, has blossomed beneath his hand. The great obstacle is economic expediency, but Lloyd's are willing to wager at three to one odds that the French and German foreign offices can achieve the decisive calorie which will boil this issue away, and bring the kind of unmoneyed, simple conflict which dragged over Germany during the Thirty Years...