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...Senate resolution, with a minimum of details over which Congressmen could bicker, looked like the only kind of action that could possibly be taken by the Oct. 1 deadline. The question now was whether the members would oppose it in public as bitterly as they did in private. Sam Rayburn held his breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Ten Days Until Christmas | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...little later SPAB voted to investigate copper production, got no further than a bicker over the prerogatives of SPAB and OPM's copper section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: SPAB, OPM & Chaos | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Several other processes for recovering alumina from clay have also been announced. TVA has been experimenting with one for the past five years (TIME, Sept. 23, 1940). If they work, bauxite can be crossed off the list of raw materials for which nations scheme, dicker, bicker, fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Backyard Aluminum | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...first eight days of the British-Free French drive for Vichy-held Syria were a weird combination of Blitz and bicker, glad-handing and heavy punching, pushover and furious resistance. Australian bayonets were sheathed; Royal Navy guns blasted. Opposing Frenchmen kissed or killed each other. There was both soundtruck and aerial bombardment. But at week's end General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the mixed show's producer, could look at his opening week with some satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: Mixed Show | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...peep at the off-stage life of Crooner Powell and wife, who have been married five years, possess two children, will have to wait. Their performance indicates that they are thoroughly accustomed to each other. Mother and Father Powell have 124 scenes together. In all but 15 they bicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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