Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Never Again. Lippmann's most famous public feud was with Lyndon Johnson. L.B. J. had courted Lippmann's support on the Viet Nam War in the belief that Lippmann could swing the nation's liberals and academics into line; the vilification heaped on Lippmann for his opposition prompted Washington Post Cartoonist Herblock to write of the Johnson Administration's "War on Walter Lippmann...
Renewed Energy. Many companies have adopted the O.B. program to meet highly specific corporate needs. When a feud developed between members of the research and production staffs at Johns-Manville, the insulating-and building-materials maker, President Richard Goodwin sent representatives from the two departments on a weeklong raft trip. Forced to act as a team on the river, the group quickly ended the rift. The trip is now an annual event. At the Gates Rubber plant in Denver, lower and middle managers who are being groomed for promotion are sent out into the wilderness to prepare them for greater...
...perform in concert with a woman as a conductor. In the 1930s Antonia organized an all-woman orchestra in New York. Later she brought men into it, because, as she says quite reasonably, "women and men are together in life." Along with her various orchestras, sheponducted a running feud with Pianist Jose Iturbi, who allowed lhat he thought the female gender made for a certain frailty of musician ship. Antonia is modest only in aspect, not in intention. Collins and Godmilow mean to show that a musician of invigorating talent was shunted aside because of a prejudice against...
...consolidate all federal efforts, both domestic and foreign, in this field. He named Treasury Secretary William Simon as chairman, with authority to serve as the President's spokesman on all economic matters. This appeared to be a coup for Simon; he emerged victorious in his long-running feud with Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget, for supremacy in economic policy...
...Globe thus viewed itself as a responsible party in the busing feud, and its editors shed the pretense of pursuing truth when they agreed to suppress some aspects of the news. Because forecasts of violence might be reckless or drunken prophecies from self-appointed augurs, they are perhaps not news and should not be printed anyway, but the Winship mandate betrays a self-important attitude maintained by the fourth estate over this two-week period, that it must support the state in its efforts to integrate...