Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago when Illinois' Democratic Governor Henry Horner advanced his feud with Chicago's Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly by a State law requiring the permanent registration of voters, many and loud were reformers' predictions of what the Chicago voting lists would reveal. Last week the Cook County Board of Election Commissioners, which has been investigating the lists for a year, made one highly interesting revelation: that 150,000 of the county's 2,000,000 enrolled voters are not U. S. citizens...
...Velrans likes sunlight; for its cabbages, the adjoining village of Longeverne likes rain. One day, centuries back, the peasant folk of the two villages set out for the same shrine to pray for their respective needs. Brisk words led to a brisk battle, and the prayers went unsaid. The feud is still being fought by 20th-century youngsters, even though the blonde schoolteacher (Claude May) at Velrans and the handsome mayor of Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow is to snip...
Pointing to the suppression of free speech and independent political parties, Professor Langer stated that Austria has been virtually a Fascist state since 1934. The question of "On whom shall she be dependent?" precipitated a deep-lying feud between Mussolini and Hitler, only glossed over by recent Italo-German amity, he said...
...bankers to save the market, he bid high on 25,000 shares of Steel and saved the day, thus creating the "Black Thursday" legend. Later, as President of the Exchange, he was a truculent critic of the Administration, since he opposed federal regulation of security markets. To end the feud between Wall Street and the S.E.C., friends and foes forced Whitney to retire in 1935, and a New Dealer replaced...
...blood feud or simply a case of remarkable devotion to Alma Mater, the University has found itself with a larger inheritance than either of Dr. Chauncey's two brothers...