Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than one opposition Senator suspected that President Roosevelt had tossed the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty into the Senate at this time to give that august debating society something innocuous to quarrel over and thus keep itself out of serious mischief while waiting for the House to whip through the President's domestic program. Most of last week, therefore, the Senate was kept busy talking about this pact with Canada. The substance of the debate was inferior to its manner. Most politely vociferous opponent of the treaty was Illinois' aging, asthmatic Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who wore...
...many and diverse. There are some who oppose them on philosophical grounds, who object to the fact that a jingo spirit is kept in strength and energy by the intrusion of professional soldiers into college classrooms. This view they have supported with great insight and appropriate vigour, but its quarrel with the present is so fundamental that their efforts have not met with much success. There is, however, no necessity to confine the attack on military and naval science to these grounds. Two other arguments have been presented; no answer to either of them has been advanced. Harvard College...
...Georgia, CWA was put in charge of Miss Gay Shepperson, fortyish, professional social worker. This resulted from a thoroughgoing quarrel between blatant dictatorish Governor Talmadge and President Roosevelt's quiet stubborn CWAdministrator Hopkins. In the course of the quarrel, these words flew...
University Hall awaits the outcome with the deepest suspense. This quarrel is regarded as the barometer of Harvard's fortunes outside of New England, and may result in crossing off much geographical cross-section if Harvard succumbs to oblivion in Virginia. But we feel that if Harvard's teachings are alien to Virginia traditions something should be done about it right away. It is an unnatural state of affairs...
...Faith in God may be a thoroughly scientific attitude, even though we may be unable to establish the correctness of our belief. Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are as his children. Not that science in any way shows such a relationship . . . but the evidence for an intelligent power working in the world which science offers does make such a postulate plausible...