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...smoldering feud at Northwest Airlines blazed into the open last week. President Harold R. Harris resigned because of "basic and irreconcilable differences of opinion . . . between myself and a group who presently constitute a majority of the company's board of directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Northwest Exit | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...toward dueling. This much is true: on several occasions he did come close too shooting it out, the most famous time with the Marquis de Mores, an ambitious Frenchman who had built up a rival ranch in the Dakotas. A severe blizzard sent Roosevelt back East bankrupt, ending the feud...

Author: By Stephen L. Seftenberg, | Title: Widener Roosevelt Library: A Useful Monument | 3/10/1954 | See Source »

Langer won Republican nominations for Senator in 1940 and 1946 over the bitter opposition of the regular North Dakota Republican organization. His support comes from the remnants of Non-Partisan League, a populist organization of which he is a leader. In his feud with home-state Republicans, Langer used to get considerable help from his close political friend, President Truman. He now wants to use his position as head of the Judiciary Committee to force the Republican Administration to give him a tight hold on all federal patronage in North Dakota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bilbo of the North | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Across the nation last week, newspapers were reviving a 20-year-old feud with broadcasters. Nashville's Banner and Tennessean made front-page announcements that thenceforth they would print radio & TV program listings only in paid advertisements. They were joined by five other newspaper publishers in Oklahoma City and Chico, Calif. The trade journal Editor & Publisher found "a good deal of logic" in their position. Nashville's seven radio & TV stations were standing firm at week's end, confident that public pressure would force the newspapers back into free program listing. Said a Nashville set owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Press v. Broadcasters | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...wrote long eye-witness accounts. Many Milwaukeeans were so furious that Nieman posted armed guards outside the paper's doors, barred the windows and gave staffers revolvers to carry. For its campaign, the Journal won a Pulitzer Prize in 1919. The campaign also intensified the Journal's feud with the pro-isolationist Progressive Party, a feud that started when Democrat Lute Nieman had a political falling out with onetime Republican Bob LaFollette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fair Lady of Milwaukee | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

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