Word: hatchetation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only did Governor Pinchot last week bury the hatchet with the Old Guard organization, thus throwing his personal machine into the Regular line and practically eliminating Democratic chances, but he also invited his longtime political foe, Senator Reed, to Harrisburg for a friendly handclasp. "There is no personal bitterness between Pinchot and myself," beamed Senator Reed. "I fought him as hard as I could and the Governor did not pull his punches...
...Flesh-colored fish. Schools of rare lampanyctus, hatchet fish, thousands of tiny squid...
English Comedienne Gertrude Lawrence swung a bottle of champagne against her new 30-ft. yacht, gift of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The bottle bounced back. Harder she swung and still harder, but without results. While spectators tittered, she picked up a hatchet and smashed the bottle. Then, out of breath, she christened the boat Grateful, took Donor Fairbanks and friends on a week-end cruise out of Southampton...
...Hearst hatchet was buried nine years ago at an AP annual meeting in Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria, and Hearst-papers now hold 15 memberships. Last year William Randolph Hearst Jr. was elected to the honorable but empty job of an AP vice president. Roy Howard, too, as head of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, made his peace with AP several years ago and now controls six memberships. Last year he visited the Orient at the same time as Kent Cooper, AP's able general manager, and the two were wined and dined together like the best of friends...
Last week AP had its annual meeting in the new Waldorf-Astoria, and out came the old hatchet. This time it was brandished over the question of news pictures. First to pick it up was Hearst's brainy general counsel, hawk-nosed John Francis Neylan of San Francisco...