Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief of police of Wellsville, Ohio refused to turn over to a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation a gangster named Adam Richetti, wanted for taking part in the Kansas City Station massacre. That refusal marked the peak of jealous friction between local and Federal law enforcement agencies. Last winter Attorney General Homer Still Cummings tactfully called a peace pow-wow in Washington between the conflicting parties (TIME, Dec. 24). On the theory that the camaraderie of the classroom makes for mutual understanding and friendship, it was decided that three schools should be set up within the Department...
...perfectly timed. Of his New Deal measures a good handful needed only a smattering more of Congressional goodwill to reach him in forms that exactly suited his taste-the Utility Bill, TVAmendments, AAAmendments, Banking Bill. With them out of the way there would remain but one cause of friction between him and Congress- his tax bill. Hardly a Congressional leader at Jefferson Islands but was annoyed because the President had demanded that that measure be hurried through this session...
...hood of his automobile, impatiently waited for Detective William J. Burns to find the bombers. Sleuth Burns found the Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, Iron Workers Union dynamiters, kidnapped them from Indianapolis and Detroit to Los Angeles. The trial in 1911 caused such serious nationwide friction on the labor-capital front that many a cool head feared a workers' revolution. Then, at the last moment, the Brothers McNamara confessed. Their lawyer, Clarence Darrow, was twice tried, finally acquitted of jury tampering. Los Angeles, saved from a Socialist mayor, became more open-shop than ever...
Unlike many other sports, there is no bodily contact in track. As a result Jesse-being a conscious boy-feels that he can extend himself to the utmost in his respective events without causing any friction between his white brethren. Perhaps Tolan, Metcalfe, Hubbard and others also had this mental slant...
...cannot digest his food; he sweats easily; he gets out of breath. Mentally he is often the victim of one of the foregoing phobias. Dr. Sigmund Freud believes that anxiety states are always caused by sexual frustration. But, says FORTUNE, "most psychiatrists would also include financial worries, domestic friction, and other non-sexual causes. In some ways an anxiety state resembles an acute neurasthenia...