Word: strife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blot out the Mason-and-Dixon line and show the world that Dixie wants all sectional strife and hatred to fade away during the Hoover Administration." Conference veterans will appear in the inaugural parade in Washington a fortnight hence. This is the first instance when a formal invitation to participate in the inauguration ceremonies has been extended to the United Confederate Veterans...
Goodyear Melon. After a near-decade of financial trouble, reorganization and management strife Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. last week announced a stock melon. To stockholders it will sell a new common issue for $50 a share. Present common is around $90 a share. With the $41,480,000 derived from this sale Goodyear will pay off $7,500,000 notes due in December, will build a manufacturing unit in the South, will improve its financial position...
...Adelaide and Cape Horn he became fast friends with Joseph Conrad, sailor. Thereupon he took to writing. Besides the volumes of the Forsyte saga, which total with the swan song 2,000 pages, he has done numerous other novels (The Patrician, etc.), stories (Five Tales, etc.), and powerful plays (Strife, Justice, The Skin Game, etc.). Of recent years his hobby has been launching obscure writers. Trader Horn (TIME, June 27, 1927) he heralded from South Africa. Bambi (TIME, July 23) he praised because it had minimized the rough tedium of a channel crossing...
...widow of Paul Raditch, mother of seven children, said last week: "I hope my husband will be the last victim of this strife and that Serbia and Croatia will make peace." Her wishes were respected to the comparative extent that only four persons lost their lives in riots which broke out at Zagreb when Stefan Raditch was prematurely reported dying...
Meanwhile the do-nothing clique of politico-militarists who ousted Dictator Pangalos got together, last week, another Cabinet. It is the old one of Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis, re-formed to exclude Alexander Papanastasiou-which means nothing. The Cabinet has merely been reshuffled to allay strife over whether certain projected roads shall be built in Greece by Samkros Bros., Ltd. of London or by Fox Bros. of Berlin. Presumably Fox Bros. have lost, since their proponent was the ousted M. Papanastasiou...