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Hulking, button-eyed Big Bill Hutcheson has ruled the carpenters for 20-odd years. He has fought fellow chieftains in bitter internecine wars. The case which was taken to Supreme Court was a quarrel over whether his carpenters or Brother Harvey Brown's machinists should install machinery in Anheuser-Busch's brewery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Holdup Men of Labor | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...days he ran about, trying to use pull to keep him out of Deputy Damonte's clutches. Then he drew all of his money from his bank and after a violent quarrel with Ambassador von Thermann, who wanted him to face the music, went into hiding. As soon as Investigator Damonte learned that Sandstede was on the run he ordered his arrest. Police were posted at his house and at the German Embassy. Pickets stood guard along the roads leading from Buenos Aires. A cordon was stretched around the airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Hunting a Nazi | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Tiff. In England, a young pair who had had a lovers' quarrel took 50 years to cool off, finally got the knot tied. The place: Knott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 25, 1941 | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...Professor Hower quarrel with "potter" but not with TIME'S figures, supplied by New York headquarters of Wedgwood itself. Since war, Wedgwood's normal 55% North American sales have jumped to 90% due to the British luxury tax (33%$>)> loss of Continental and Empire markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...Churchill back in 1930. In his premature autobiography, A Roving Commission, he wrote: "I have always urged fighting wars and other contentions with might and main till overwhelming victory, and then offering the hand of friendship to the vanquished. Thus I have always been against the pacifists during the quarrel, and against the jingoes at its close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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