Word: strife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House of Bishops, this document was written and read by Washington's Bishop Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman. Ranging over a number of social and economic matters, the Pastoral found in the world all manner of unholy ills: "greed . . . indecency . . . degeneracy . . . corruption . . . selfishness . . . unrest . . . hunger . . . despair . . . civil strife . . . indulgence . . . vulgarity . . . ambition . . . infamy . . . hatred . . . suspicion . . . disillusionment . . . privation . . . wickedness . . . misfortune . . . folly." But Bishop Freeman waxed most indignant in contemplating that institution which most plagues his Church-divorce. Tolerant as it has been in some respects, the Episcopal Church has never temporized in its battles against divorce and the remarriage of divorced...
...last summer Republicans in Washington gleefully made much of that State's strife-torn Democratic organization. Last week the G. O. P. suddenly found that it had a full-sized family ruckus of its own in the 2nd Congressional District. There a Methodist preacher named Payson Peterson was running against Democratic Representative Conrad Wallgren, one-time national amateur billiard champion...
Cocky Japan is again attempting to stir up strife in the highly unstable Pacific area, Following her egotistical demands for equality with Britain and the United States, she now announces a plan for strict government control of a monopolistic nature over the oil business of her sponsored empire in Manchukuo. Not only does this policy contravene the "open door" provisions of the Washington Treaty but it also demonstrates Japan's willingness to risk the hostility of the great nations by attacking them in their vulnerable spot--their purses...
...labor organization, and the growth of vertical unionism will give much more potential power to such organizations. The Federation must meet these new conditions and new problems in a new spirit, for unless negotiations with industry are carried on with a different attitude than that which has marked recent strife, a long and bitter period of industrial warfare is in prospect...
...involuntary unemployment, we are convinced that the furnishing of financial aid by the Government to men who are voluntarily unemployed is fraught with grave dangers to our economic and social stability. . . . The furnishing of relief to strikers, if continued as a national policy, will . . . not only incite industrial strife but will materially increase the number of unemployed...