Word: strife
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...ninety years a violin mellows--wine ages--and men mature. The Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts has mellowed and aged; in his views on war he has not entirely matured. Three wars he has witnessed, their strife and their slaughter, but his words yesterday did little to prove...
Justice Frank Murphy, only Catholic on the bench, kept mum. But when Edwin Pickett, arguing for the State of Connecticut, declared that it was unlawful to "stir up strife and discontent," Justice James Clark McReynolds interjected that Jesus stirred up "a good deal of trouble in Jerusalem." Mr. Pickett replied: "As I remember my Bible, something was done about that." The Court took the case under advisement...
...into deserving sheep, undeserving goats. He decreed that the 27,000 nonstriking but idle sheep had no "direct interest" in the strike, therefore were entitled to some $3,000,000 in benefit payments. For the remaining 23,000, Mr. Rubinoff ruled: no money, no subsidy to Labor strife from the State of Michigan...
Identifying big industry with "reaction," Bridges denied responsibility for the recent labor strife on the West coast and asserted, "Every fight in the industrial field is caused not by the attempts of the unions to increase their gains but by the attempts to take away what we have already got--and that's darned little...
...midnight last week in Detroit, in a little room of Chrysler's Institute of Engineering, Messrs. Keller, Murray and U. S. Conciliator Jim Dewey had a final private chat. Outside were the union's President Roland Jay Thomas and Richard Frankensteen (whose tactless tactics helped prolong the strife). Jim Dewey excitedly emerged, announced: "I am happy to announce an agreement...