Word: feud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interior, a Westerner was almost inevitable since Interior's most important sphere of action is in the West (power development, conservation, etc.). An early possibility was Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado. Eisenhower advisers remembered the feud between Colorado and Arizona and California over division of the Colorado River water, advised against a Colorado man. Ike chose Oregon's Governor Douglas McKay, whom he had met during his campaign in the Northwest and liked for his independence and common sense...
Because the 1950 senatorial contest was decided by only 1,102 votes, splinter candidates Kellems and McLevy probably hold the balance of power in the Benton-Purtell race. Kellems, a manufacturer who has been waging a one-woman feud with an oblivious U.S. government, classes herself an Independent Republican and may attract some disgruntled Taftites. The Democrats are more worried about McLevy, however, than the regular Republicans are about Kellems. McLevy is not much of a Socialist, but he's an unbelievably strong party boss in his city of Bridgeport, where he has been mayor for more than ten years...
Democrat v. Democrat. Unity is no more evident on the Democratic side. U.S. Senator Dennis Chavez, who is often described as affable, is anything but that toward his running mate, Everett Grantham, nominee for governor. Their feud dates back more than a decade to the occasion on which Grantham, then a U.S. attorney, prosecuted some of Chavez' relatives in a WPA political-influence case. In last spring's primary, Chavez ran one of his own men against Grantham, without success. (Chavez managed to win his own primary over a state senator named "Diamond Tooth" Miller...
Last week, in a surprise move, Ingalls Iron Works' directors named Bob Ingalls Jr. chairman. He announced that he would ask that all the court actions be dropped, thus end the family feud. Though his mother still holds the disputed shares, Bob Jr. at last will have a chance to show how well he can run the company...
...Naguib has managed to rein in the hot-bloods, keep the opposing factions pulling together. But a serious feud in the Officers Committee could stop Egypt's revolution in its tracks...