Word: discordances
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...announcement was made officially; it remains only for the change to be made. C. Bascom Slemp gave his resignation to the President and it was accepted. That there was discord between the President and his Secretary was a well-credited rumor more than six months ago. Mr. Slemp and the President's campaign manager, William M. Butler, clashed at the Cleveland Convention last June over the selection of the vice presidential candidate. Afterwards, Mr. Slemp would have resigned (TIME, June 30) had not the President succeeded in pacifying...
With true democratic spirit the assemblage debated the method of organization in noisy discord while almost everyone present offered an opnion until L. R. Brown '26 was finally elected president. The other officers were chosen in short order with J. G. Curtis 3L, as vice-president, G. D. Leighton '26 as secretary, and J. H. Weiss '25 as treasurer...
Less than three months later (TIME, Aug. 11), revolution again broke out. General Ferrera charged that his old friend General Tosta, under whom he was once Minister of War, was seeking to perpetuate discord in the country; at the same time he disclaimed any personal ambitions for himself...
...Republican Discord. "The Executive proposes adherence to the existing World Court. The request falls on dull ears. The Executive demands the Mellon bill and members of his party in both houses of Congress, regular and insurgent, hasten to reject it. He disapproves the Adjusted Compensation Act but Congress reenacts it. Congress passes a measure granting to postal employes an increase in their meager salaries; the President disapproves it. He protests against the restriction on Japanese immigration; Congress adopts it. Whenever before did a party in control of the Executive and of a majority in both houses of Congress present...
...World War we gained a truer appreciation and a better realization of war's unspeakable waste, its dreadful hardships, its cruel slaughter and its aftermath of loneliness, sorrow and broken hearts. We now know that as a means of solving the world's problems and removing international discord war is a delusion and a lie. We know that no matter how much a nation may desire to hold itself aloof and to keep apart from the struggle it cannot escape war's terrible effects." Hilaire Belloc, British historian: "The world gained by the Great War a demonstration...