Word: strife
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...smoke-screen has obscured the whole underlying strife of which the case is a symptom. Race hatred is a canker present no less in the vitals of America than in India. South of the Mason-Dixon line the Negro is deprived of almost every constitutional and natural right to which man may lay claim. Lynchings and packed juries are so common where the Negro is concerned that these evils have never been subject of much comment. Whether the Southern white in right or wrong it is impossible thus cursorily to determine, but one of the great unfaced and dangerous issues...
...Ironically enough, he says that only a period of political unity and national enthusiasm could have brought forth another Goethe or a Humbolt. At that time Germany was split into sections and subjected to the armies of Napoleon. Like the post-war Germany of today it was weary of strife and lacked any unifying ideal to inspire the national consciousness. This was, nevertheless, the Germany of Goethe and Schiller,--the great creative and prolific period of German literature. Although there is no reason to suppose that the present disorder will produce another Goethe, there is equally to reason to despair...
...Roman Catholic Church, judging itself immutable, bides its time. For six years its episcopate in Mexico has been in bitter, almost continuous strife with Mexico's Government. Grieved with what he considers persecution and what Mexican legislators call regulation, Pope Pius XI has watched in patience, hoping for peace chiefly through the truce arranged between Church and State by the late Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow. Last week Pius XI ceased to bide, uttered a sharp protest in the stately, tremulous latinity of a Papal encyclical headed Acerba animi ("bitterness of soul...
After a period of intestine strife the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art is preparing for the coming season under the direction of its undergraduate board which assumed control as a result of the reorganization of last spring. This year the struggle to maintain the Society will be even greater than last and it will prove a severe test for the new administration. Support, whether financial or moral, is no longer lavished indiscriminately by the general public and the Society "must produce the goods" if it would continue to live...
...Alabama after the Civil War and founder of Swayne Hall at Talladega, Ala., first Negro college in Alabama. His brother is Alfred Harris Swayne, vice president of General Motors Corp. Mr. Swayne became president of Burns Bros, less than two years ago. Since his election there has been warm strife between the company and certain stockholders seeking a receiver. Last week this group said it was pleased with the resignation...