Word: strife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anxiously the 15 A.F.L. elders said: "An era of good feeling is setting in. Industrial strife is definitely on the wane. . . . Demands for [labor] legislation have gained support because of the wave of strikes . . . . We wish to emphasize that the industrial disturbances of 1946 were . . . a passing phenomenon...
...millions was slowly dying in the arms of its desperate allies. By analyzing the forces that are now out of control, the authors of this majority opinion on the Chinese crisis have thrown light on past American mistakes. The gravity of these errors is evidenced by the civil strife in China today, an end product of the American ignorance or defiance of the revolutionary surge that sweeps the backward East to violence...
...with a problem which Patel had fashioned for him. By meeting most of Jinnah's demands, Patel had passed back to the Moslems the decisions on whether or not they would enter the Constituent Assembly, which reconvenes this week. Patel, who has said that he could end communal strife in Congress Party provinces in six months, wanted a settlement; if he could get one, time would work in his favor in the struggle for control of India. He had the police power and his Hindus had the majority...
...Techniques. A settlement of the communal issue, even if it was temporary, would allow Patel to turn his attention to the growing labor strife. Late last summer, when a famine impended, a Communist-led strike had tied up south India railroads; a nationwide 25-day postal strike in July was also Communist-inspired. Two weeks ago Karachi dock workers walked off ten grain ships for ten days to get a wage of 94? daily. As a result of the stoppage, the rice ration in New Delhi was cut from twelve to eight ounces. In New Delhi 100,000 children were...
...wavering, death-sick world, America can offer a path of hope, a road to sanity, a way to safety, prosperity and world peace. . . . Harassed as we are by domestic strife, some may be tempted to retort, 'physician, heal thyself.' It is true that the American way has at times failed lamentably, but when it has failed it has been because the moral and spiritual factors have been rejected or ignored. Denying God, rejecting God's way, pursuing power and abusing it ... these are the dangers threatening the peace of America, the peace of the world...