Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Considerable friction over this proposal arose between the Reserve Banks of Boston and Atlanta. The Boston Bank, now headed by W. P. G. Harding, former Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, was first in the field with a proposal to establish a branch office in Havana. On the other hand, the Atlanta bank claimed that owing to geographical reasons, such a Havana branch should come under its jurisdiction...
...British Institute of Patentees, has published a list of inventions which the world needs, including glass that will bend, a smooth road surface that will not be slippery in wet weather, unshrinkable flannel, a noiseless airplane, a motor of one pound weight per horsepower, methods of reducing friction, practical ways of utilizing the tides...
...denial was printed by Le Matin of the reported friction existing between President Millerand and Premier Poincare. M. Poincare, in his speech at Bar-le-Duc, spoke of men who had exchanged the Socialist red flag for the French tricolor. It was suggested that he referred to M. Millerand, who started his political career as an extreme Socialist and has gradually become a Republican...
...Overseers have tried to legislate it out of existence. And she will go on having a race problem for some generations to come. There are groups at Harvard, as at Columbia and Chicago and?to a less extent?at Yale and Princeton which are not harmonious. The result is friction and ill feeling which cannot help but have unfortunate effects
...These mines, in a district which is under the supervision of the League of Nations, are worked by German laborers, with French engineers, representing the French government in charge of the men. One would naturally suppose that the war being over such a short time, a great amount of friction and hard feeling would exist between the Frenchmen and the Germans. Instead of this the workingman and the engineer have met each other halfway and have come to a surprisingly good understanding under such circumstances The result of all this is increased production, higher wages, and mutual respect...