Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nature of the quarrel which impelled so much bloodshed was not ascertained...
Controversy. A week of doubtful sport was afforded readers of the World and Times of Manhattan by an open quarrel between those august news organs as to whether a certain written interview obtained "exclusively" by the World had actually been drafted by the venerable Archbishop of Mexico, the Very Reverend Jose Mora y del Rio. The Times contended that the real author was the Archbishop's vigorous field generalissimo, Bishop Diaz. The World repudiated this aspersion with indignation. Readers of both newspapers grew weary of the controversy. Finally a rumor, subsequently squelched, spread that the Archbishop would be prosecuted...
...present (and higher) replacement costs. Meanwhile the railroads pay according to the Government formula, but under protest. The Fund, augmented in ten months last year by $732,448.34 (from 33 lines) now approximates $6,000,000, but may not be dispersed because there is no prospect of the valuation quarrel being settled...
Shipping Board. The President wanted the operation of the Government Merchant Fleet placed under a single executive head responsible to him, wanted the Shipping Board confined to regulative and semi-judicial functions. Congress shrugged its shoulders at the quarrel...
...will not shoot. ... If any gentleman here finds it necessary to take further issue with my honor, let him fire at me. I will not return his fire. I shall not resort to this stupid, inconclusive, and barbaric method of settling a quarrel which has been forced* upon me. I had hoped that because of my services to Poland no Pole would take my life. I have been shot at and missed. Had I shot I would not have missed. But I, for my part, I am unwilling to shoot another Pole...