Word: feud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadcast Feud...
...Blonde Mrs. Edith Maria Reuss Lord went into Manhattan supreme court with a tale of marital strife which sounded like a metropolitan replay of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Her manufacturer husband, Robert P. Lord, had armed men to bar her from their apartment, she said, so she had gathered up a squad of private detectives, recaptured the place and held it with a crew of shotgun-packing guards for eleven weeks...
...University Theatre management has refused to attempt a settlement of its film feud with the Liberal Union, C. William Chastain '52, HLU Film Series manager, said last night...
Once an editor with the quaint name of James King of William left his office at the Bulletin during a feud with Editor James P. Casey of the Sunday Times. As King reached a corner, deep in thought, Casey confronted him with the usual challenge: "Draw and defend yourself!" Before he could, Casey shot him. In the confusion that followed, someone stuffed a dirty sponge into King's wound and it became infected. Casey was hanged by the vigilantes-and posthumously cleared by a court. Too late to help him, the Sacramento State Journal righted the miscarriage of justice...
Knight said they were wrong. But a relative, irked by an old family feud, had dug up Davis Knight's genealogy. His great-grandfather had been Cap'n Newt Knight, who deserted the Confederate Army and set up "The Free State of Jones" in Jones County. Cap'n Newt had had children by Rachel, a Negro slave girl. Rachel was Davis Knight's great-grandmother...