Word: quarrelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth, when it came out, was much less perturbing but more picturesque. There has been, it seems, a violent quarrel between the three superior naval officers aboard the Royal Oak, namely...
...complaints with the Admiralty alleging that Rear Admiral Collars had grossly and persistently overstepped the bounds of his authority and shamefully browbeaten his inferiors. Pending an investigation, all three officers were suspended, last week, and ordered to hurry from Malta to London, there to give an account of their quarrel...
...necessary to remember that three hundred votes is substantially short of a majority in a convention which will seat more than a thousand delegates. And it is also necessary to remember that Lowden is one of a large number of gentlemen in IIIinois who have a standing quarrel with Big Bill Thompson, and that this fact may deprive him of a solid delegation from his own State
Figuratively speaking, Fascist Rome fulminated, last week, at Socialist Vienna. The quarrel started last fortnight when the Chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel encouraged deputies in the Austrian Parliament to flay the alleged oppressive Italian administration now existing in the formerly Austrian province of Lower Tyrol (TIME, March 5). Last week Signor Benito Mussolini hurled back a reply from the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Cried...
...result of the quarrel was that Frémont was court-martialed in Washington and found guilty of mutiny, disobedience of orders, causing undue disturbance. President Polk canceled the punishment, allowed Frémont to remain in the Army. But Frémont resigned, insisting on his complete innocence. Despite its verdict, the court-martial made Frémont the hero of the North and the prophet of expansion...