Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shambles. Paralyzed by their feud, the New York Democrats let some of their long-awaited chances slip away. The leadership fight held up the slicing of a $4,000,000 patronage pie in the shape of some 400 legislative housekeeping jobs; thus the Democrats had to depend on Republican holdovers to turn on the lights, call the roll, and even chauffeur the official Cadillacs when the legislature convenes this week. The Democrats also failed to appoint committee chairmen, and in the vacuum Rockefeller happily stole the Democrats' thunder, announced some items of his own program, including several proposals that...
...When the feud first broke out two years ago, President Kennedy appointed Gen. Douglas MacArthur as an arbitrator to try to settle the dispute in time for the Tokyo Olympics. The NCAA and the AAU declared a truce, but with the Olympics out of the way, war broke out again with the NCAA's memorandum...
...making. Its main problem is that world prices for coffee, the country's only real source of foreign exchange, have been in a slump ever since 1957. It was partly in hope of getting the economy moving that the Conservative and Liberal parties buried a bitter, historic feud* and formed the National Front in 1958. The coalition has turned out to be a halfway house that neither party can really call home...
...that time Harvard decided not to enter meets sponsored by either group. The track team stayed out of Boston's Knights of Columbus meet (an AAU-sponsored event and normally a feature of the winter schedule). The feud had been settled by the time other meets rolled around...
...original resolution, initiated by Jerry Umanski '67, recognized the MFDP as "Mississippi's legal party organization." It was attacked on the grounds that participation in an intraparty feud would only "embarrass the state and national parties...