Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consequence of his feud with the press, Secretary Ickes has received more personal attention from the press than any other member of the Cabinet. The Secretary of the Interior's lineage took another bound as a result of his remarks. Next day Columnist Johnson cracked: "The Ick . . . is about as fair as Caiaphas, as objective as a fishwife and as courteous as a hyena. He said in his speech that he wishes I didn't love him so much. Why, gosh-darn it, I just can't help loving a man like that...
English lore has it that Billy Patterson was an ingenuous boatman who earned his shillings in the vicinity of Oxford University. It is said that for years a feud had existed between the students and the river boatmen. A group of excitement craving sophomores managed to capture Patterson and bring him to "trial" before a jury of their peers. He was found "guilty" and "sentenced" to have his head amputated via the guillotine...
When C. I. O.'s Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman and two score sub-lieutenants went to Cleveland last fortnight to minister to the feud-fuddled United Automobile Workers of America, they hoped to apply not a cure but a poultice. To that end they had the delegates elect conservative, cooperative Roland Jay Thomas to the presidency and abolish the jobs of four quarrelsome vice presidents (TIME, April 10). Last week, to the dismay of Physicians Murray & Hillman, the delegates in winding up their convention wound the poultice into a knot...
...least astonishing thing about You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is that it is almost as good fun to watch as it must have been to make. Typical shot: Fields threatening to get McCarthy, with whom he continues his radio feud, a pair of beavers...
Bucklin, the successful suitor, last night attended the Freshman dance with the girl in question. Still handcuffed, Worthen spent the evening laying plans for a prolonged feud. "I'll get him," he muttered, "If I over get these damn things...