Word: strife
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...With the Democrats in control of Congress, he is in a fine position to fight the Old Guard Republicans, i.e., if his program is defeated, the blame will be laid to the Democrats and not to G.O.P. intraparty strife...
...signally failed to organize workers in mass-production industries, steel, autos, rubber, etc. As chief of the nation's largest industrial union, the United Mine Workers, John L. was confident that he could organize the mass-production industries-and he made a spectacularly successful start. The C.I.O. spread strife and union buttons across the land with sit-down strikes and picket-line battles, and Republic Steel's Tom Girdler became a hero to some businessmen when he snapped: "I won't sign a contract with an irresponsible, racketeering, violent, communistic organization like the C.I.O...
...some of the things that both the Government and the public should watch. Items: ¶ The stock market, the President implied, might dip, but it is not necessarily a good indicator of business conditions: "Continued economic recovery must not be jeopardized by overemphasis of speculative activity." ¶ Labor strife might become a problem this year: "History tells us that industrial disputes have usually been more frequent in periods of expansion than in periods of contraction." ¶ Pension plans, which now cover 12 million workers and absorb $3 billion a year, are a growing sociological and economic influence. Government studies, said...
Situations & Personalities. Where national issues have no meaningful local application, most of the races in the 50 battleground districts are turning on local personalities or intraparty feuds or on both. Example: in Pennsylvania's Eleventh District (Wilkes-Barre), Republican strife is undercutting Representative Edward J. Bonin. The trouble began last spring when Republican Governor John Fine moved into his old bailiwick, Luzerne County, in an effort to unseat State Senator T. Newell Wood. Fine managed to beat Wood in the G.O.P. primary, but Republicans lost so much blood in the battle that Benin's campaign developed a serious...
Beset as he was by the EDC fight, Premier Mendès-France found time to keep one prior promise: an attempt to bring peace and stability to France's shaky, strife-torn North African empire in Tunisia. Mendès himself, in his first weeks in office, had promised the Bey of Tunis internal sovereignty and an all-Tunisian government. Last week talks designed to bring substance out of the shadow of the Mendès proposals began in Tunis...