Word: rift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best of their abilities, they can prove their public spiritedness, and make the necessary readjustments quickly and efficiently. If they refuse to cooperate and appeal to the shades of Calvin Coolidge to keep the future away from their doors, they will arouse class antagonism and cause a serious rift in the community...
Skyways to a Jungle Laboratory is the travel diary kept by Mrs. Crile of the expedition of her husband, Dr. George Crile, famed U. S. surgeon [TIME, Oct. 19], to Maji Moto Camp in the Great Rift Valley of Tanganyika. Writing little of the scientific achievements of the camp, Mrs. Crile gives good descriptions of Africa from the air, long accounts of the hunting exploits of the members of the party, illustrates her book with 51 good but conventional photographs...
Last week President Adolph Hirschberg of Philadelphia's Central Labor Union rose to plead: "Don't take the attitude that officers of the A. F. of L. are enemies of the laboring man. Much damage has been caused . . . [by] this rift in the ranks." Snapped Yale Professor Jerome Davis: "The A. F. of L. should never have suspended [Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization] without putting the question to the whole membership. . . ." (TIME, Aug. 17). Promptly passed by a unanimous vote was a resolution condemning the A. F. of L.'s treatment of Miner Lewis, endorsing...
...This Administration . . .," wrote he last week, "is too often undiscriminating in its interest in the novel, too likely to accept the new merely because it is new." Last week-end observers who had begun to suspect a sharp personal rift between the President and his onetime favorite Brain Truster were surprised to learn that Critic Moley had been taken for an overnight cruise to Chesapeake Bay aboard the new Presidential yacht. As the Potomac sailed back up the Potomac in a pelting rainstorm next day. wiseacres wondered whether Editor Moley was talking up to President Roosevelt in person...
...direct mention of the Tydings bill. Said this onetime soldier: "The past two years in Puerto Rico have been free of serious trouble. Too much publicity has been given to the assassination of Colonel Riggs. . . . The relations between private employers and employes are of the best. There is no rift between Capital and Labor on the island; there never has been and there never will...