Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsboy, theatre usher and racetrack bookie from Manhattan's East Side, he bought a franchise in the National League for $500 in 1925, the year before Charles C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle invaded New York with Red Grange and an "outlaw" league. By preserving his New York franchise during a feud with Pyle, Mara saved the organization which, set up in 1921, is now indisputably the sport's major league...
...personal feud between Homer Cummings and Andrew Mellon is of long standing. On behalf of various clients, the Stamford, Conn. law firm of Cummings & Lockwood has, since 1925, pressed one damage suit after another against Aluminum Co. of America. No sooner had the Pittsburgh jury dismissed the case against him than Mr. Mellon turned around and filed a petition with the Board of Tax Appeals for $130,045 which he claimed he had overpaid on his 1931 tax return. In September the Board published its reply, in which was discerned the fine Connecticut hand of Homer Cummings. It revived...
Over 130 men have been active in the 9 teams which compose the two competing leagues. The Business School Champions will be determined this week, and the student-faculty feud will follow soon after, if plans are carried through...
Concluding a feud which has existed since 1926, the Lampoon and the Princeton Tiger announced yesterday that they will publish a joint issue Saturday before the football game. To the 6000 subscribers of the two magazines will go 64 pages of humor, a record which has not been equalled by any similar comic publication for the last six years...
...mystery story, about the convict Magwitch and his life-long feud with the blackguard who stole his wife, is blurred by the fact that Magwitch never seems quite sure whether he is villain or hero. In addition to this, the characters have names like Pocket, Jaggers, Gargery and Pumblechook. In spite of all these eccentricities. Great Expectations is superb cinema entertainment. It should go a long way toward enlarging even further the prestige of Charles Dickens who has lately become the most fashionable author in Hollywood...