Word: strife
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...recent internal strife, followed by an open break in the ranks of organized medicine as represented by the American Medical Association, has focussed public attention sharply on the rising costs of hospital care for the medically indigent. A large section of our population depend for their medical care on the free clinics which the majority of metropolitan hospitals run. As a result of the increasing specialization in medicine the expense of operating these clinics has doubled. The small group of doctors who precipitated the rift felt that the present policies of the Association would never solve the problem of financing...
...voice: "The fabric of culture which has been built up by mankind through enduring centuries of painful toil and sacrifice is menaced today as never before. . . . America is menaced, not by a foreign foe that would storm its battlements, but by the more fearful enemy of domestic strife and savagery." Certain it is that Mr. Lewis' horizon is broad. He is concerned with "the future of endangered civilization," "the ideal and practice of human freedom," "our responsibilities to the future of our race...
...what it can give to the student body, is a sound working knowledge of democratic procedure, rational debate, and intelligent compromise. It has made a praiseworthy effort to recruit men from all schools of thought, but the crucial test is whether it will now become an arena for indiscriminate strife, or an enlightened and diversified forum. "Every city and house divided against itself shall not stand," and the Student Union should put its house in order before it ceases to be of value and falls of its own weight...
Claiming that the New Deal's business policy was the cause of the present slump, the Boston College team asserted that it was fundamentally harmful to American business, that it fostered collectivism as opposed to free enterprise, and that it engendered class strife...
...University is to be blamed for allowing this situation to arise, it may be said by way of defense that never before has it had to cope with friction and strife between rival factions of its employees. Much of the agitation in favor of the "inside union" is coming from employees in responsible positions who erroneously believe that Harvard favors this group and hope to better themselves by backing it. The University should make it absolutely clear to all employees that such agitation cannot be sanctioned, and that where it involves an executive, constitutes an illegality. Once this is made...