Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From his father, fabulous Movie Pioneer Lewis J. ("L. J.") Selznick, who gave him a schoolboy allowance of $1,000 a week, Myron inherited a contempt for small sums of money ("peanuts" to Myron is anything under $5,000 a week), a feud with most of Father Selznick's contemporaries which is supposed to contribute to his professional zeal...
...Balkans did the great offensive of the war of nerves find a soft spot in the defense. In Rumania, King Carol made a speech of surprising firmness, declaring that Rumanian frontiers could not be changed. In Yugoslavia, Croats and Serbs gave promise of ending their feud...
...setup, voted itself a fulltime, paid ($40,000 a year) president. To Charles W. Kellogg, now 59, who resigned as chairman of Engineers Public Service Co. last week, went the job. His biggest task: to win the public's sympathy for the utilities in their long-standing feud with the Government...
Wisconsin's students are fun-loving, friendly, athletic, many of them farm bred. Wisconsin's Clarence Addison Dykstra, 56, is serious, hardworking, cold, a political fencesitter. Arriving at Wisconsin two years ago to clean up after Glenn Frank, who had a feud with Governor Phil La Follette, Dykstra pacified the faculty in the same efficient way as he had handled Cincinnati's flood as its City Manager, but he has so far kindled no fire among faculty or students. Frank Porter Graham, 52, is called "Mr. Frank" by his students at the University of North Carolina. Generally...
...during the Munich Crisis, which he coauthored. Most conspicuous coup was a "confidential" memo, which he issued two months before on the Monopoly Investigation (he called the village grocer as much of a monopolist as any trust). One motive behind the Monopoly memorandum was Berle Jr.'s private feud with competitive White House counsellor, hearty, pragmatic Tom Corcoran, who did not plan the Monopoly Investigation as just another outlet for Berle's talents...