Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Furthermore, he will do well to remember that a great part of the publicity director's time is of necessity taken up by routine contacts with the local newspapers. Despite the best efforts of Mr. Nichols, there has been a tendency since President Conant's inauguration for a certain friction to arise between the Administration and the press. To allow a return of the spirit of antagonism which prevailed in other days would be to forfeit an advantage won only with much labor and much tact...
Friends of Dr. Lindsay Rogers, who has been struggling with the code for five months, well knew that the deputy NRAdministrator hoped that Guild delegates would not create further friction with publishers by making Heywood Broun, pinko Scripps-Howard columnist, their first president. But after a National Press Club luncheon at which General Johnson assured them that the Government would protect them from discharge for joining the Guild, the delegates promptly elected Broun. Other officers: Lloyd White (Cleveland Press), Andrew McClean Parker (Philadelphia Record), Edward D. Burks (Tulsa World), R. S. Gilfillan (Minneapolis Tribune), A. Judson Evans (Richmond Times-Dispatch...
Significance. There is friction in every administration. But friction in the Roosevelt Administration is apt to be peculiarly significant because most of it comes from basic differences between those who are quite definitely not Socialists and those who, for most practical purposes, are. The near-Socialists are led by handsome Rex Tugwell who wants honest labeling written into the food codes and has for the same purpose drafted a food & drugs bill which last week was misbranded in Congressional hearings as the "Copeland Bill." Their strategy is to get as much done as possible under the guise of "Liberalism...
...reliably reported that Mr. Peek served an ultimatum to the effect that unless Mr. Tugwell was taken out of the agricultural building he himself would resign. This may be an exaggeration, of course, of the way Mr. peek feels about it, but there is no doubt that friction has developed, and that Mr. Roosevelt has the task of bringing about harmony...
...some 35,000 Texans, the biggest turnout for them during their visit here. In Dallas, also, they enjoyed a charming and cosmopolitan society at the beautiful home of the Rue O'Neills that they were not privileged to enjoy elsewhere in the State. In Dallas there was no friction to mar their visit, such as there was in Fort Worth and in San Antonio...