Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Happy Ending. Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, the feuding owners of United Artists, got together in a movie cutting room and made peace. U.A.'s income-largely because of their feuding-had reportedly slumped to $192,000 last year. They compromised on a new president, Gradwell L. Sears, who has been U.A.'s vice president since 1941. David 0. Selznick, who had been in at the start of the feud (TIME, Dec. 23), had sold out his U.A. share...
...historic week for Argentina. It marked the official end to the war-born feud between the U.S. and Argentina-and brought with it the resignations of Juan Domingo Perón's archfoe, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, and his good friend and "apologist, dyspeptic Ambassador George Messersmith (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The week was also the end of Perón's first year as President...
...three years; 5) enrollment in college R.O.T.C.s or in the Enlisted Reserve Corps at colleges, trade schools, etc., for courses in special techniques. The commission warned that the National Guard must be "far different" from the depleted, poverty-stricken organization it is today and must end its jurisdictional feud with the Organized Reserve...
...advised the critics of her Lonely Parade to "go crawl back into the wall, where you came from." Whit Burnett left garrulous Ilka Chase speechless when he told her that her In Bed We Cry was "written from the groin." Rockwell Kent and James T. Farrell began a celebrated feud on the show. Dorothy Thompson ripped into Author Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Germany Is Our Problem) with such vigor and at such length that the moderator had to reach over the table and grab her by the arms to make her shut up. She sheepishly admitted: "I guess I am getting...
Also in Los Angeles, the Rev. W. O. H. Garman, secretary of the strictly Fundamentalist American Council of Christian Churches, fired another short round of bird shot in his little organization's long standing feud with the mighty Federal Council of Churches.* Angry Parson Garman did not approve one bit of the Federal Council's national Conference on the Church and Economic Life, held last February at Pittsburgh (TIME, March 3). Cried...