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...strategy would be to heckle the King Cabinet unmercifully week after week in Parliament. Mr. King's bland refusal to take Conservatives into his Cabinet for the duration of the war offered the opportunity. The accident of Mitch Hepburn's choosing this moment to press an intraparty feud with placid Mr. King merely made the attacks of Conservative Manion more embarrassing...
...PEOPLE SING-J. B. Priestley -Harper ($2.50). An old-time music hall comic, an exiled Czech professor, a somewhat sickening heroine (who does not sicken her author) become the storm centre of a three-sided feud in small Dunbury. The argument is of industrialists v. landed snobs v. common people-over which class shall have the use of the Market Hall. Abetted by a lot of old-fashioned plotting and comic incident and by a drunken representative of Old England At Its Best, the workers win, and every good person gets what he was after. Thus combined, Author Priestley...
...Tsaritsin there began one of the bitterest political enmities of modern times-the Stalin-Trotsky feud. Trotsky claimed that Stalin, a political commissar at that time, was insubordinate. He demanded and got from Lenin an order recalling him. Thereafter, Comrade Stalin patiently and calculatingly nursed his grudge against Comrade Trotsky...
Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard's paper got in trouble when it used some ugly words in connection with some of Long's followers. But the Item was only saying openly what other New Orleans papers have said by implication for years...
Last week Hatfield Broun put an end to his feud with McCoy Howard by signing a new contract with the New York Post, to take effect day after his World-Telegram contract expires next week. The Post, in place of Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate, will distribute Broun's column to other papers. A sportswriter before he became a columnist, Broun will also turn out stories on baseball and racing for the Post...