Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unable to market his own milk, these sales agencies become extremely potent, sometimes to the farmers' misfortune. Chief sources of trouble: independent dairymen refusing to abide by the cooperative's price dictates as did Farmer Lentz; cooperatives trying to enter the retail distribution field and thereby running afoul of large retail distributors...
Like Herndon & Pangborn, who ran -afoul of the Japanese authorities for flying over forbidden ground, Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler was arrested last week by local officials at Fortaleza, Brazil because he showed no authorization to fly over Brazilian territory and had "not sufficient proof of his identity." Pilot Hink-.ler's excuse was the same as the Pacific flyers': that an advance telegram of introduction, requesting courtesy of state air fields, was not delivered. Forgiven and forgiving, Flyers Herndon & Pangborn went last week to the Japanese Consulate in Manhattan and received the White Medal of Merit...
Unhappily, no boat drew near Captain Raabe that night. There was nothing but howling wind and rushing water. Blinded, he was unable to light his running lights. He ran afoul something in the dark. The Spindrift began to ship water . . . not until well on in the next day, after a night of horror, did the storm abate and his sight return sufficiently to see where he was- caught in a fish trap...
Once a famed comic artist, Funnyman Anthony joined the staff of Judge in 1920, became editor two years later. In 1929 Life hired him away, to succeed its outgoing Editor Robert Emmet Sherwood. Again?so his story runs?he ran afoul of the sensibilities of advertisers and, exactly one year ago, was dismissed. Now he is suing Life's President Clair Maxwell, alleging violation of a verbal five-year contract...
Natural enemies are Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden and New York's Society for the Suppression of Vice, founded by the late famed reformer Anthony Comstock and now headed by thin-lipped John Saxton Sumner. As early as 1905 Publisher Macfadden ran afoul of the Society because of a "Health Rally" in Madison Square Garden. Last week occurred another climax in the feud: Mr. Sumner's Society was awarded $10,000 damages in a $100,000 libel suit against Mr. Macfadden's tabloid Evening (porno) Graphic...