Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patch up the blistering feud between France and Germany over the coal-rich Saar which the French control and the Germans covet...
...Jackson-Wisdom feud became a Taft-Ike battle early in 1951, when Wisdom started persuading Democrats who liked Ike to switch their registration to Republican so they could take part in party caucuses and conventions. Said he: "Your vote might decide the next President...
Ever since Publisher Hank Greenspun, 42, bought the Las Vegas Sun (circ. 8,500) in 1950, the. paper has been scowling at Nevada's Democratic Senator Pat McCarran and old Pat has been glaring right back. Two months ago their feud turned up in court. The Sun sued McCarran and 51 others, including the owners of Las Vegas' leading gambling houses, for $1,000,000. The charge: McCarran had persuaded the local gamblers to yank $8,000 a month in advertising from the paper after the Sun printed attacks against him. The gamblers denied the charge. Last week...
Biggest hazard was Lodge's feud with his former ally, National Committeeman William H. Brennan. Their dispute was over local issues, but Ike's friends feared Brennan might join the Taft minority, split the delegation. Lodge succeeded in displacing Brennan as national committeeman with former Governor James C. Shannon. Lodge then withdrew his opposition to William A. Purtell, a Hartford businessman, who was nominated for U.S. Senator. In an atmosphere of uneasy harmony, brought .about by these moves, the Ike slate of delegates was elected...
...Clothes give us individuality, distinction, social polity; clothes have made Men of us." So wrote Thomas Carlyle in his noted. "Sartor Resartus" of 1836, making his contribution to a literary feud over the importance of attire that has flourished since...