Word: feudist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, two aged, reactionary spoilsmen, both vindictive, determined and ruthless, were waging a joint fight for power. Both, chip by chip, were being whittled down to size. One was 80-year-old Kenneth Douglas McKellar, the choleric Tennessee feudist who heads the all-powerful Appropriations Committee; the other was Nevada's silver-maned, silver-minded Patrick A. McCarran, 73, chairman of the scarcely less powerful Judiciary Committee...
...speech, however, brought some of that clamor into Parliament. It was made by onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, long-standing political feudist with the Prime Minister. Said...
...virtually granted the A.F. of L. building trades unions a closed shop. Currier has a contract with the C.I.O. United Construction Workers. If he gets the job, A.F. of L. unions have threatened a Michigan-wide general walkout. FWA has asked OPM, Justice and Labor Departments for advice. When Feudist Palmer takes the stand later this week, it will probably be Carmody's turn to blush. One man who will neither take the stand nor blush: F.D.R., whose failure to delegate complete responsibility to any one man is responsible for this and many another defense mess...