Word: strife
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...Refusal to confer and negotiate has been one of the most prolific causes of strife. This is such an outstanding fact in the history of labor disturbances that it is a proper subject of judicial notice and requires no citation of instances...
...Late one afternoon the Senate sat placidly putting the finishing touches on the revised Guffey Coal Bill. Passage within ten minutes seemed assured, and contented Senators' minds were beginning to turn to thoughts of cold drinks and warm supper. In their snug, thick-carpeted little chamber, the storm & strife of tear gas and window-smashings, of roaring, club-waving mass resistance to the Law, seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose in the Senate...
...disembarking from an Italian transport at Cadiz, officially a member of Spain's Foreign Legion. Last week Fortunato Manure was one of some 200 Italians, ranging in rank from privates up to a Lieutenant-Colonel, who were captured by Madrid's defenders in five days of furious strife which badly broke the point of the so-called "Italian Spearhead" thrusting at Madrid from the northeast on the Guadalajara front...
...infer Mr. Roland Moncure [TIME, Feb. 22] is a bachelor. With TIME and LIFE arriving the same day all is quiet on the domestic front. But if they arrived on different days consider the strife between man and wife which you would thus create. So please desist from your plans for a separate distribution date for the two magazines...
...Bros, of Mt. Morris, Ill.). Last week he was able to report that Judge's circulation was up to 252.750 to which he would for the time being add Midweek Pictorial's 32,750 subscribers, devoting himself solely to "the concept that in a world torn with strife, a laugh is the best palliative...