Word: conflicts
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...movie magnates and the legitimate producer cease their bickering. Let the one show us heroes and villains moving through a panorama of incidents, actions, accidents; let the other present to us personalities which emerge from a conflict of wills into characters; then we will be satisfied with both...
...voters are concerned, and in respect to principles both parties are bankrupt. Although the spirit of partisanship has rarely been more bitter or more brutal, and never since Secession has it been more inimical to the welfare of the country, the battle of these warring politicians is a fictitious conflict...
...argument for his nomination does not stop there. One of the great organs of British Liberalism, the London Nation, recently declared that Mr. Hoover was the ablest man that the war had produced. Of the men who were without high reputation when the conflict began, there can be no question that he is the most commanding figure that emerged out of this welter of the nations. Such ability is not to be held lightly at a time like this. The American people are going to need it, and need it badly...
...anyone fall to recognize the connection between this decision and the puzzling conflict of public interest and constitutional law in our attempts to rid the United States of Bolshevists and Bolshevism? We are a law-loving people. We are attached to the legal doctrines laid down by the fathers of the Constitution. We will not give up our belief in the virtue of free speech, freedom of the press, and tolerance of all political ideas. But of late we have been forced to realize that in this special case these principles have reacted to the detriment of the public welfare...
Because of the conflict of this meeting with that of the American Legion in the Union, arrangements have been made so that men attending the Geological Club may sign up for membership to the Legion there...