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Blood had been spilled between the Armstrongs and Gerrards, and until Daniel Armstrong's day there seemed no likelihood that the feud could end. Then Daniel, by an act of moral renunciation which was the measure of his strength, voluntarily abandoned both his claim to the land and his claim to revenge. To young Kinloch Armstrong this action is simple cowardice. He finds the ultimate proof of the Gerrards' 'original fraud. But then Kinloch, in his turn, is repulsed by the discovery that his own family has been involved in the death of an innocent...
...trying. Kaiser, in a surprise deal with War Assets Administrator Jess Larson, had snatched the Government's $28 million Cleveland blast furnace from under White's nose (TIME, Aug. 30); last week, when Senator Kenneth Wherry's Small Business Committee looked into that deal, the feud was out in the open...
...some, it all sounded like a renewal of the feud between Giannini and FRB's Marriner Eccles, whose family's banking empire in the Rockies (TIME, May 10) stands smack in the way of A.P.'s ambitions to expand eastward. It was bigger than a personal feud. The board's complaint was unanimously endorsed by its seven members. Its result might well be a crucial test of one of the strongest Strong Men in U.S. financial history...
Conscience v. Party Line. The immediate issue was capital punishment for murder. But to the House of Lords, and to Prime Minister Clement Attlee's government, there was a larger stake. It was the dramatic recurrence of the old feud between the hereditary Lords and the elected Commons...
...just the man with whom Tammany could challenge waspish, ebullient little Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1941. In a sense it was a personal feud. The Little Flower had heckled Democratic...