Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without justification, as the center of the civilized world, are not likely to forget their past. Remembering it, they are not likely to acquiesce in the domination of invaders who, in order to maintain their power, must seek to reverse the current of China's modern intellectual development. Friction will result, for a long time to come...
...lower its dues from $25 a year (for voting members) to a sliding scale of from $12 to $100 a year, depending on income, so that G.O.A.A.A. members could all remain in the union. Having thus accomplished exactly what it had planned to, but with a minimum of friction, it remained for the Guild, as a legally constituted labor union with a new membership of small-fry artists, to divest itself of the appearance of being a club of big names. As if aware of this. Baritone Bonelli at once announced a drive to unionize even the mighty Metropolitan...
Palestine is far from the only organized settlement of Jewish refugees, although it is by far the most costly and troublesome. A small settlement exists in The Netherlands on land reclaimed from the Zuider Zee. There are others in Czechoslovakia, Russia, South America. Most have followed Palestine in having friction with the previous inhabitants. From Costa Rica last week came word that Refugee Economic Corp. of Manhattan has purchased for a reputed $1 an acre the 50,000-acre Tenorio estate in Guanacosti Province to become a Jewish community where refugees from Nazi Germany may enjoy peace and raise soya...
...Sebastian, theoretically completely calm since September, was reported the scene of one outbreak. Leftists reported that their scouts had heard firing behind the Rightists' lines not in one but several localities. The reason generally given was bickering between the Spanish regulars and their Italian and German allies. Since friction of that kind had been rumored before, the Leftists' reports were at least plausible...
...Jerusalem the Secretary of the Arab Committee, Fuad Saba, who is himself a Christian. "All Holy Places of Palestine have been fully protected for thirteen centuries! A typical example is that for centuries the keys of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre were in custody of Moslems because of friction and differences between the Christian communities...