Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Board of Trade to Arms. Last week Farmers National Grain Corp., subsidiary of the Federal Farm Board, had no trading privileges on the Chicago Board of Trade. This situation came about as an upshot of the long and bitter feud between...
Celebrating his 97th birthday, Col. Sir Fitzroy Maclean, chief of Clan Maclean, received at his home on the Isle of Mull a telegram of greeting from the Duke of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, Thus ended a feud which began 187 years ago when a Maclean chief suspected his wife of peccadillos with a Campbell...
...Smith-Roosevelt feud was thus put squarely out in the open where the G. 0. P. could view it with undisguised delight. After such words it seemed impossible that the Brown Derby could support Franklin D. Roosevelt in a national campaign. That Al Smith would use every ounce of his party power and prestige to block such a nomination was now a political certainty...
...strong. In all useful pursuits, fishing, seal-hunting, Fergus outstrips his brother. Peter hates him for his open disposition, his drunken glees with Captain Aeneas M'Grath, a roisterous old seadog who settles nearby. When Patriarch Hector Macrae dies soon after a terrible "rowing" to settle a family feud, Peter becomes patriarch in his stead, besets Fergus to his fall...
...feud had arisen because of Mary, their hired girl, who, failing Fergus, had gone a-loving elsewhere. Peter, who keeps a goat's eye on her himself, persuades Fergus that she has been the cause of their father's death, that she must be killed. On the day of the murder Peter feigns sick. Fergus loves Mary, but, under his brother's patriarchal command, he takes her out and drowns her. Convicted of murder, he is sentenced to penal servitude for life...