Word: bickered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper Information answering small gossip he had heard that Carlos had spread about him. Promptly Carlos sent his seconds to Aleman to demand a duel (illegal in Cuba). Aleman chose seconds and primed his pistols. Groaning, President Gerardo Machado sent for Brother Carlos, told him to disappear until the bicker had been settled...
...that such treatment shall no longer apply to all but hereafter only to specified items of trade. Clearly this opens the way to unlimited trade haggling between states. It was said in Berlin last week that France urged and won the new interpretation so as to be free to bicker & dicker, after March 4, with President Roosevelt who has indicated that he favors bargaining methods to adjust the world's tariff problems...
...Duller but more important than the seating bicker were the sidelights of the Wet v. Dry struggle. Many of Chicago's saloons had been closed or had closed voluntarily for the duration of the convention, but the dampness of anti-Prohibition agitation was rife...
...Stirred by the Democrat's fierce bicker over Prohibition, Dry Republican Senator Arthur Capper last week predicted: "President Hoover will be renominated and will lead the Republican party to victory on a Prohibition platform. That is the issue. The Republicans are Dry. We shall lose some votes in the East but we will carry the Middle West and West solidly...