Word: quarrelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Mr. Durant went back to General Motors (1916) he insisted that Mr. Chrysler be vice-president. There was a quarrel over policy; Mr. Chrysler resigned. John North Willys figuratively clutched at him to work down Willys-Overland's $46,000,000 bank debt. Within less than a year the debt was down...
...Whigs but that he had as good a standing in the Whig party as any other man - the Whig party being a composite party. Moreover, Tyler's efforts for peace in 1861 exclude the idea that he had any "embitterment" against the government on account of any party quarrel in 1841. Your article challenges a comparison. Both Tyler and Lincoln were confronted with war when they took office. In 1841 the menacing factor was Great Britain, supported by France and Mexico. Had war ensued, the Union would have been "encircled with a wall of fire." From this threatening situation...
...have no quarrel with Senator Pomerene, but merely wish, as one of your original subscribers, that TIME be accurate in its statements...
...should they remain so to either of these once friendly rivals. Both universities have relatively so much in common, both in academic standards and athletic tradition, that any permanent estrangement should be mutually disapproved. That they will eventually resume athletic relations, perhaps as soon as all parties to the quarrel have graduated, seems a reasonably, safe prediction...
Very briefly the story of "Hassan" is that of the quarrel over a girl waged between Rafli, King of the Beggars, and the Caliph of Bagdad. But through it all runs the strange, sweeping play of Hassan, the Confectioner. In a rare illusive manner Flecker has told the fable of this unhappy man, himself in love. Gorgeous colors distract the eye, enchanting verse lays its spell upon the ear; it is a spectacle, but a strange rich legend that rises to something more than mere pageantry...