Word: quarrelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Partner Cohen says: "If we have to become propagandists, we were driven to it." When Senator Tydings of Maryland or Senator George of Georgia snarls at "two little Wall Street lawyers who want the power to say who shall or shall not be Senators," they know well that their quarrel is not with Lawyers Corcoran & Cohen but with Client Roosevelt...
...from the first, that a wage reduction was "necessary, justified, and inevitable." Grimmest of all were President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association (775,000 union men) and President Alexander F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (150,000 members). Labormen Harrison and Whitney, despite a quarrel that had them scowling at each other last week, have maintained ail along that heavy capitalization is to blame (see p. 62) and that Labor should not be forced to pay for Management's mistakes. In any case, they insisted that the roads were not in bad enough shape...
...many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger. He planned Stanford University as a memorial for his son, died soon after it opened, with his affairs in such bad shape that it barely got through its first years. His widow took up his long quarrel with Huntington, modeled her life on that of Queen Victoria, called on Huntington shortly before her death to make peace with him. That cynical old millionaire's office was so poorly furnished that he had to send out to get a chair...
...risky for an Asiatic to frustrate sahibs. The Sultan of Johore soon discovered reports were reaching London that he was making an issue of marrying Miss Hill, had engaged in a "serious quarrel" with the Governor of Straits Settlements. Afraid the British Government might crack down, His Highness suddenly made amends by packing Miss Hill and her mother off to England. But he attended their sailing party and stood on the dock while his guests waved farewell to him (see cut). Last week in London, as mother & daughter landed, the Sultan's long-time legal adviser. Roland Braddell, swarthy...
...prototypes of their own. Such cinema families as the Hardys and Twentieth Century-Fox's Joneses are well on their way to developing for modern cinemaddicts the kind of cumulative box office appeal once exercised by old time serials. Good shot: Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) settling a quarrel between his daughter and the cook, who joins the menage halfway through the picture in a manner calculated not to offend cinemaddicts who cannot afford such luxuries...