Word: strife
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...Second is the matter of one government's claims against another. This has been since time immemorial a fertile ground for strife. A foreigner, for example, is lynched by a mob in America. What is his government to do? Make objections through diplomatic channels, of course, and seek redress in the customary manner. But what if our officials politely but firmly fall to be blamed, or that any compensation is necessary? Then the consequences are not always happy! Were there a recognized universal law which could be applied, much time could be saved and dangerous complications averted...
...blot out the Mason-and-Dixon line and show the world that Dixie wants all sectional strife and hatred to fade away during the Hoover Administration." Conference veterans will appear in the inaugural parade in Washington a fortnight hence. This is the first instance when a formal invitation to participate in the inauguration ceremonies has been extended to the United Confederate Veterans...
Goodyear Melon. After a near-decade of financial trouble, reorganization and management strife Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. last week announced a stock melon. To stockholders it will sell a new common issue for $50 a share. Present common is around $90 a share. With the $41,480,000 derived from this sale Goodyear will pay off $7,500,000 notes due in December, will build a manufacturing unit in the South, will improve its financial position...
...Adelaide and Cape Horn he became fast friends with Joseph Conrad, sailor. Thereupon he took to writing. Besides the volumes of the Forsyte saga, which total with the swan song 2,000 pages, he has done numerous other novels (The Patrician, etc.), stories (Five Tales, etc.), and powerful plays (Strife, Justice, The Skin Game, etc.). Of recent years his hobby has been launching obscure writers. Trader Horn (TIME, June 27, 1927) he heralded from South Africa. Bambi (TIME, July 23) he praised because it had minimized the rough tedium of a channel crossing...
...widow of Paul Raditch, mother of seven children, said last week: "I hope my husband will be the last victim of this strife and that Serbia and Croatia will make peace." Her wishes were respected to the comparative extent that only four persons lost their lives in riots which broke out at Zagreb when Stefan Raditch was prematurely reported dying...