Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole further course of negotiations on international War-debts. The United States could not easily let off other countries with more favorable terms than she had exacted from us, and as a consequence the settlement of their American debts by our European Allies hung fire for years, provoking continual friction and bitterness. Equally the exorbitant figure we had promised to pay raised by so much the amounts which under the policy of the Balfour Note we were compelled to demand from our own debtors. Not alone Britain, but all Europe, has suffered ever since from Mr. Baldwin's vicarious...
...invitation to the commission of crime. . . . The unusual conditions of race, society and industry in the Territory make a continuance of such laxity fraught with much social and political danger. . . . We found no present serious race prejudice. The races seemed to be carrying on together with exceedingly little friction. . . . We found the police administration in Honolulu impotent, undisciplined, neglectful and unintelligent, with its chief concern political activity. ... In Honolulu we found an inexperienced, inefficient County Attorney, immersed in politics. . . . We found no serious criticism of the courts. ... No serious complaint of the jury system...
...demands in 1915. But if it means that any signatory of the Pact has a right at any future time to refuse to recognize the provisions of a treaty so made, the question is much more serious. Of course, to do so would be a certain cause of friction, highly likely to produce an extremely dangerous situation...
...treaty and that it authorizes no enforcement against refractory signatories, the article moves on to predict portentous effects of the Stimson letter upon international relations in the future. Instead of encouraging an immediate forceful alteration of unsatisfactory treaties, such a policy would lead to lengthy controversies about rights, protracted friction between disputing powers, and possible hostilities. Furthermore, universally accepted it would provide a highly undesirable loophole of indefinite claims through which an unscrupulous nation might, on convenient occasions, "repudiate its treaties and disregard those of others on the ground of duress...
...Smith-Roosevelt friction caused an unprecedented rupture in the small but doughty Democracy of New Hampshire where a primary occurs this week. To reinforce his organization in Vermont, Candidate Smith told off James A. Kennedy of Burlington to try to round up as many of that State's eight delegates as possible. Even if he does not think his chances for nomination are bright, Candidate Smith, say his friends, hopes to gc to Chicago with enough pledged support to block Governor Roosevelt and dictate the choice of party leader. ¶ Melvin Alvah Traylor, speaking before the Kentucky Legislature last...