Word: quarreling
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...view of the manpower shortage, everybody wanted the women to work except Local 6. Regional Director James V. Bryant of the War Manpower Commission threatened to refer the quarrel right to Washington. Even the Treasury Department lent the women a helping hand: it offered shipyards 300 complete sets of washroom plumbing (scrapped from a hotel turned into a Treasury office building) for bigger and better Rainbow Rooms...
...Macon, Ga., during a quarrel between soldiers and Negro civilians, a Negro soldier grabbed a sergeant's pistol, killed a Macon policeman and wounded the sergeant...
...grim and sorry reflection" of past iniquities. The Laborite London Daily Herald, long committed editorially to Indian independence, criticized the "precipitate imprisonment" of Gandhi as an invitation for "unknowns" to run wild. The Manchester Guardian urged: "Our Allies-the U.S., Russia and China-should help us to compose a quarrel which injures every one of them. . . . We should refuse fatalistically to accept a new hostile front in India, whose people are our friends...
Nahas and Makram, No. 1 and No. 2 men in the Wafd Party which dominates Egypt, had loved each other for 20 years. The cause of their quarrel was profound. Shrewd, 66-year-old Nahas felt that he needed to concentrate authority in one hand-his own-to get his country through the impending crisis. So he took back from Finance Minister Makram certain powers which he had once bestowed. Makram, hurt, became so obstreperous that Nahas kicked...
...although Judge Leibell found errors in the accounting, he had no quarrel with the bonus system or the bonuses' size. Competition in the industry, he pointed out, makes a good automobile executive worth a lot of money...