Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...garnering enough items to provide Lowell Thomas with adequate scripts. Armed with only a telephone, Schechter proceeded to scoop the ears off many a paper. Often while reporters huddled in anterooms, Schechter, in the name of Lowell Thomas, was getting newsworthy statements over his wire. Before the press-radio feud was ended, he had correspondents all over the country. Even such eminents as Maryland's late Governor Ritchie served as Schechter stringmen...
...Felix Thaxter last week sustained the Pinkhams, chastized Lydia, saw no need to appoint a receiver. Said he: "On the whole, the President seems to me to have acted with restraint under great provocation. . . . We are reminded that there is no war like a civil war and no feud like a family feud...
...claims to a pompous nothingness. Current label: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted." As for Lydia Gove, whose interests also include a $250,000 investment in the Howard Johnson ice cream & restaurant chain, her feud with the Pinkhams is not necessarily over. Her probable next move: an appeal to the full bench of Maine's Supreme Court...
Thereupon Dr. Cowley started a public feud with Dr. Hutchins. Accusing Dr. Hutchins of excessive "intellectualism," Dr. Cowley expounded a rival philosophy and coined a name for it: "holoism" (i.e., education of "the whole man," not merely his mind). Last week Dr. Cowley's crusade against Hutchinsism bore spectacular fruit. He was offered the presidency of the University of Minnesota, second largest U. S. university (15,167 full-time students), by unanimous vote of its board of regents. To Hutchins, vocational-minded, unclassical Minnesota is an arch example of what a university should not be. Cowley, delighted with...
ASCAP and BMI thrust themselves directly into local affairs Friday night when their feud forced the Harvard band to revise its schedule and resort to Stephen Foster instead of Harvardiana...