Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kith & kin but he could not get the Boks to share his enthusiasm for the Martins. His only child, Mrs. Bok, resented his marriage to ''Cousin Kate" Pillsbury so soon after her own mother's death. Her displeasure was inherited by her sons. In this family feud, polite and unobtrusive though it was. the Lorimers sided with the Boks against the Martins. For a long while the name of Mrs. Lorimer never appeared in a Curtis-Martin news paper...
Picking up the question of who was whose friend. Senator Cutting concluded: "I am not going to initiate any kind of a feud with my distinguished friend from Virginia. I think just as highly of him as I did. I hope he may hold some share of the esteem for me he says he has held. This issue is not a personal...
...William Norris as its lone Senator. Ambitious to sit in the Senate, "Brother Charley" pondered ways & means of appointing himself to the vacancy. His doctors told him he would never reach Washington alive, and the Senate would not swear him in in his bedroom at Lincoln. A bitter party feud between the Governor and Arthur Mullen, Democratic national committeeman, also helped to stalemate the Senatorial choice. Democrat Mullen wanted to consolidate his grip on Federal patronage by getting his friend Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, one-time (1911-23) Senator, back into his old job. But Governor Bryan was in no mood...
After hours of fruitless negotiation, which saw the injection of the first note of commercialism into a CRIMSON-Lampoon feud of fifty years standing, J. M. Boyd '35, kidnaped CRIMSON editor, was recovered last night at a Beacon Street hideout. Retreating behind barred doors of the Jester's building, the editors of the Lampoon made no attempt to prevent Boyd's rescue by representatives of the CRIMSON...
...slowly. He has long studied the farm problem at an editorial desk. In 1928 he silently opposed Herbert Hoover; in 1932 he was red-hot for Roosevelt. Iowa Republicans were shocked by his political heresy, set it down to a family grudge dating back to the Wallace-Hoover Cabinet feud. The Secretaryship of Agriculture came to him unsolicited...