Word: rift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moslem-Hindu religious and social differences top the list of hindrances to Indian independence from British rule. Probably the most frequent and most telling answer Great Britain gives to demands for immediate dominion status is: "Once freed, India would destroy itself in civil war." The rift divides India as permanently as the Mississippi divides...
...Rift between anti-appeasers in the British Foreign Office and Prime Minister Chamberlain reached near-scandalous proportions during the Munich Crisis. Some Foreign Office officials, the Prime Minister was certain", were even leaking confidential information to the press. After Munich some officials who handled press relations were suddenly shifted to other jobs, but Neville Chamberlain was by no means sure he had plugged all the leaks...
...Peace now and unity gradually," was the dictum for solution of the A. F. of L. - C. I. O. rift set forth by Spencer Pollard '32, instructor in Economics in the fifteenth Guardian Radio Broadcast last night...
Motor Trouble. One such situation that Mr. Lewis recently had to handle without constitutional sanction was a rift in the United Automobile Workers of America. Now firmly in control of C. I. O's Vice Chairmen Hillman and Philip Murray, impoverished U. A. W. last fortnight borrowed $50,000 from Mr. Lewis' United Miners. Last week it developed at the convention that U. A. W.'s sorely divided officers had spent some of the money for Elgin watches to give Messrs. Lewis, Hillman. Murray and C. I. O. Headquarters Director John Brophy as "symbols of unity...
...that day. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King motored over a series of bridge spans, viaducts and curving highways, came to a stop on a go-foot span. Below them rippled a narrow streamer of the St. Lawrence known as the International Rift, through which runs the U. S.-Canada boundary line. Each with his right hand clutching one grip of an enormous pair of shears, they snipped a gaily fluttering ribbon. The first Thousand Islands International Bridge, from Collins Landing, N. Y. to Ivy Lea, Ont., was officially open...