Word: quarrelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stepchild of Truman's official family, life for Lew was embarrassing enough. As the advocate of labor inside the Cabinet, Schwellenbach's existence was frequently made miserable by labor's jealous family quarrel. Latest instance came when Lew let word get out that he planned to appoint a C.I.O. member to the International Labor Organization conference to be held in Montreal in September. Since Sam Gompers helped found the I.L.O. in 1919, the A.F.L. had furnished every delegate to I.L.O. conferences. As soon as he heard of the slight, crusty Bill Green got off a scorching, four...
...inevitable result was a family quarrel the like of which the neighborhood had never seen or heard. The disturbance became so noisy that Grace finally ran for the cops, i.e. the Civil Aeronautics Board But CAB decided that the case really was not under its jurisdiction, and left them to fight...
Newton approaches temperately the two Baptist demons of Rum and Romanism. Said he last week of rum: "I don't know what the best answer is. Prohibition clearly wasn't the solution. The educational approach is probably the most promising." Of Romanism: "Our quarrel is not with the Catholics, God bless them, but. . . ." No meeting of more than three Southern Baptists would be complete without demanding the recall of Myron C. Taylor, U.S. Presidential representative to the Vatican. "We intend to keep at it," insisted Dr. Newton. The 8,000 messengers agreed...
That the Penitentes are also American was disclosed last week as the coming courtroom battle exposed the origins of the quarrel: the new, upstart moradas had been founded by Democrats; the older fraternidad was dominated by Republicans. Though each Penitente scourges only himself, many a Penitente evidently felt that his flesh could best be chastised under a two-party system...
...nose, of the goon, the stink bomb, the special deputy and the Bronx cheer had never found peace very peaceful. In the midst of their own private postwar fights over wages, rents and nylons, many a U.S. citizen saw nothing out-of-the-way in the United Nations quarrel over Iran...