Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urging of his publisher, induced to modify a malicious passage that hinted at Johnson's being a violent man. In checking many sections of the manuscript, Jackie Kennedy read great chunks of it-often with considerable surprise. After reading Manchester's claim that there was an ugly feud between the Kennedy party and Johnson on the flight back to Washington from Dallas, she said: "I had no awareness that this was going on. All I could think of was my husband in that coffin...
Last week the long-run feud between Walter Reuther, boss of the United Auto Workers, and George Meany, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. (TIME, Dec. 2), escalated to a new peak of bitterness when Reuther announced that the U.A.W. had decided "to exert our independence" of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. on is sues of its choosing. Reuther showed some of that independence by withholding from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. $232,000 in auto workers' dues for two months, finally paying an installment of half the amount last week. Though few in the labor movement believe that Reuther will pull...
Lately, however, the feud has grown increasingly bitter, and Reuther, who has just about abandoned hope of inheriting Meany 's job, has given every indication that he will go his own way on basic issues, taking his powerful, 1,500,000-member United Auto Work ers with...
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky moved last week to cool the month-old simmering crisis in his Cabinet. The feud was sparked by the Cabinet's southerners, who resent the fact that most of the top jobs in Saigon and within the government and army are held by North Vietnamese-born refugees from Communism like Ky himself. Skillfully de-escalating the crisis, Ky used earnest pleas for unity to placate most of the seven Cabinet ministers who originally petitioned him to resign. In the end, only four finally left the Cabinet...
Because of this feud, Ivy League schools are not sent invitations to all N.C.A.A. tournaments...