Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of the Maltese friction Great Britain's diplomatic Minister at the Holy See was withdrawn. Deadlock was complete. Replying to a question in the House of Commons last week, Scotch Presbyterian Prime Minister MacDonald said: "We are perfectly prepared, so far as the Government's relations with the Vatican are concerned, to leave the matter where...
University of Idaho. Two years ago Frederick James Kelly, Dean of Adminis-tration of the University of Minnesota was imported by the University of Idaho (Moscow) to be its seventh president. With him President Kelly brought his good friend Irving Willard Jones, made him assistant president. Immediately thereafter friction began between President Kelly and the State Board of Education. President Kelly thought that Idaho should have a junior college, that the faculty should have more money. The Board thought that the junior college was a failure, that faculty salaries were secondary to the acquisition and upkeep of physical property, that...
That there is genuine friction between France and Italy was established at the London Conference when the question of France-Italian naval parity came very much to the fore and almost broke off negotiations. To those who still take seriously the "war to end war" idealism which died with Woodrow Wilson a war between the former allies seems an impossibility like the invasion of Belgium in 1914. Such people need to be reminded that Italy fore up the scrap of paper binding her to the Central Powers and joined the Entente in 1915 solely because she could obtain bigger territorial...
However, such individualism as Mr. Whalen's in a Tammany (which means team-play, or machine-play) administration was unusual in New York. Even amid the cheers, newsgatherers scented friction, suggested the dapper mayor was jealous of his Commissioner's sartorial perfection, of his triumphant publicity, his possible eligibility for the mayoralty itself...
...successful mayorality candidate Charles Bowles entered office he delighted businessmen by drafting Businessman Harold H. Emmons to be police commissioner. But some businessmen withdrew their support from the Mayor because, among his appointees was John Gillespie, onetime police commissioner, old-line politician, to be Commissioner of Public Works. Friction arose quickly between Commissioners Emmons and Gillespie. Mr. Emmons now charges that during a business trip he took shortly after his installation, the Mayor permitted the opening of long-closed big gambling dens. He also now charges that he was forced to surrender to the Mayor the control and reorganization...