Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Settlement of labor disputes by Government fiat is destructive of all the creative values of collective bargaining. ... I cannot impress [on you] too earnestly . . . the absolute necessity to realize that we must now return to self-government. This is far more important than any immediate crisis that seems to confront...
Strossing his conviction that many of the social problems which confront this country today can be solved only through a broad education for all, President Conant gave the biennial Sachs Lectures at Columbia University Teachers College in New York last week...
...professionals in the field, moved toward their goals by methods which equally disturbed scoundrels and honorable men. The democratic socialists, maintaining that full liberty and full security can be combined and made enduring, were embarrassed by their new responsibilities in Britain, and by those problems of relative inefficiency which confront all democrats. Only in Czechoslovakia, one of the less unhappy nations in Europe, were socialist prospects very promising. But that country's fortunes depended chiefly on friendly relations with the Soviet Union; and democratic and totalitarian socialists are not notable for lifelong friendships...
...relaxation and pride are not rewards of victory that we seek. Peace . . . will confront us with stupendous and difficult tasks . . . more trying even than those we met during the war. . . . We must march forward on the great road of democracy and unity. . . ." Chungking had jubilantly welcomed the Japanese surrender offer (TIME...
Maroni: "We cannot confront you with dead men . . . not today. . . . They are in the next world...