Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seized this lurid angle: "The House of Rockefeller would strip the House of Morgan of this tremendous power. ... It caught the Morgan camp wholly unawares and created something akin to consternation. . . . Even with the Rockefeller backing, it took courage to antagonize and defy the House of Morgan, starting a feud in which no quarter will be given nor asked...
...Zemurray-Cutter feud is 20 years old. Victor Cutter was opening new tropical divisions for United Fruit. Samuel Zemurray, Polish-Jewish immigrant who out of his savings as a fruit jobber in New Orleans had formed Cuyamel Fruit & Steamship Co., was trying to wrest control of the Caribbean Sea from United. They clashed in Guatemala when each backed a different country in the dispute, not yet settled, over the Guatemalan-Honduras boundary line. They clashed in Honduras when United invaded the country Mr. Zemurray had made his own through a $200,000 revolution. Mr. Cutter, smooth-haired Dartmouth graduate...
...candidate. He nominated "Jack" Garner for Vice President at Chicago and is now supposed to be the retiring Speaker's choice as his successor. Though an advocate of real economy, he still is one of the most personally popular members of the House. To compromise the sectional feud between North and South, "Joe" Byrns's candidacy was offered. As Appropriations chairman he had enormous prestige not only among his respectful House colleagues but also with Democratic politicians and office holders all over the U. S. Though Majority Leader Rainey held a slight betting edge last week in this...
...East. In the South there has been reciprocal licensing trouble before. The Highway Users Conference, whose membership includes rubber, petroleum and motor interests as well as truck operators, lays the whole license ruction at the doors of railway lobbyists in State Legislatures. Last week, while the Pennsylvania-New Jersey feud went on, a joint committee of railroad presidents under President William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania met in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station with motor transport executives under the leadership of Vice President Alfred Harris Swayne of General Motors. The conferees issued an amiable announcement following the meeting which failed...
...lion hunt for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was its energetic crime-news reporter, Alvin Goldstein, 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinner (for helping solve the Leopold & Loeb crime). The Post-Dispatch's up-&-coming rival, the Star-&-Times, had engaged United Press Correspondent Leland Chesley. Their rivalry became a feud when Reporter Goldstein claimed exclusive rights to take pictures and Hunter Wright supported his claim. The rival newshawks chartered separate boats...