Word: feuds
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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...
...slim, vivacious labor organizer with black eyes and a Red philosophy. She first shone in her native city a year ago during a garment strike, has been at the forefront of most of its civil commotions since. With San Antonio's police chief, she carries on a feud which has landed her in jail on countless occasions. Among the Spanish-speaking San Antonio proletariat, she is known as "La Pasionaria de Texas." Since her husband, Homer Brooks, former Communist nominee for Governor of Texas, lives in Houston, their marital life is confined to irregular weekends, but Emma Tenayuca declares...
...means "Bird" in Albanian and King Zog I met his fiancée in his brightest gold-lace plumage. Apart from the facts that many a prominent Albanian family has sworn a blood feud against King Zog, that he has almost ruined his throat by oversmoking, until at one time he could talk only in guttural wheezes, His Majesty is a highly eligible bachelor...