Word: strife
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...union Ford Motor Co., still resisting an NLRB order to cease opposition to C. I. O., reinstated 23 discharged unionists, as the Board had ordered-but said it was obeying the law of increasing production rather than the Wagner Act. Recovered from the factional strife which nearly destroyed the union last year, C. I. O.'s U. A. W. was in fettle for a drag-out fight with Chrysler. After that, great G. M. also might be called on to let its workers slowdown by agreement, or see them slowdown by conspiracy on the assembly line...
...Lansing constantly protested such searches as contrary to international law. In practice, neutrals have come to accept the hard-boiled point of view of Great Britain's Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George: that since the attitude of a belligerent is governed by "the exigencies of deadly strife, the country which is determined at all costs to remain neutral must be prepared to pocket its pride and put up with repeated irritations and infringements of its interests . . . and should the difficulties of neutrality prove too great, it is left with the choice of treating the violation . . . as a casus...
...folk, the Mennonites own no authority outside the Bible and enlightened conscience, disown war, infant baptism, jury duty and the taking of oaths. Most of them are thrifty, hardworking farmers, but lately many have entered industry. Chief problem which confronted last week's conference was that of industrial strife, which Mennonites abhor as much as they...
Nearly 800 Seniors and their families and friends heard the President advise the class of 1939 to resist "the impact of the immediate present, the corrosive atmosphere of potential strife," and to develop their own talents and individualities...
...than willing to pump him full of biographical detail, information, gossip, anecdotes, wherever he goes. A crack journalist, he is indefatigable in collecting facts, tireless in hunting out the small details. His workmanlike book is exactly what it was meant to be-a handy, popular, political guidebook of a strife-torn continent...