Word: strife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...topic: "Received. That labor should be given a direct share in the management of industry," the affirmative pointed to the success of labor-management committees during the war. The affirmative also claimed that giving labor a share in management would tend to unite capital and labor, diminish industrial strife, and put an end to the possibility of class warfare...
...troubled northern border. Greece at last had a coalition Government. The new Premier, in place of Tsaldaris, was frail, ailing ex-Banker Demetrios Maximos, a nonparty ex-royalist. The new Government, promising to review the case of all political prisoners, made a start by releasing women & children. But civil strife, which had slackened after the U.N. commission's arrival, flared up again, this time farther south than before; Communists boldly raided the Sparta prison, freed 200 prisoners...
...preparation for the storm, of civil strife gathering around the Gruaer case, the British last week strung barbed wire through Jerusalem, ordered the evacuation of Rehavia, the city's best residential district. The shock of the evacuation notices spread consternation through the Jewish community. When she got her notice, Mrs. Rifka Benjamin, a 65-year-old Hungarian widow, fell dead...
...spite of the impending strife, Jews from Europe were still trying to find homes in Palestine. Last week 650 refugees, packed on a schooner off Haifa, hurled bottles and belaying pins at 100 British soldiers who boarded the ship to prevent illegal immigration...
...Palestine for five years, pending a final settlement. The five-year clause would be an invitation to both Jews and Arabs to continue the struggle for advantage during the interim period. The fact that the proposed partition had no definite boundaries would almost certainly be a further incentive to strife. This week in London both Jews and Arabs turned down the British plan...