Word: skirmishes
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Frederick Thompson once forced his way into the hospital with a batch of wounded. His activities also involved a skirmish with U. S. Ambassador William Bullitt. Because U. S. passports for ordinary travelers are not valid in Spain, U. S. citizens who wanted to fight there had to get in and out as best they could. On the way home they often showed up in Paris without passports. Mr. Thompson had to pull many a wire before Ambassador Bullitt would treat them as extraordinary travelers, entitled to re-enter the U. S. without credentials...
acquired Perky's business. There followed a long legal skirmish in the U. S. and in England: National Biscuit sued Kellogg, valuing the Shredded Wheat trade name at $5,000,000 and claiming sole right to both the name and the design...
...richest, for just uptown from the East River gas tanks that gave the district its name, the rich have built a riverside colony of towering apartment houses. Through this home of doormen, poodles, gamins and Irish politics last week reverberated the angry sounds of a highly important skirmish in Franklin Roosevelt's Purge...
...soon after Homer Stille Cummings became Attorney General, his department again started gunning for Alcoa. As a private lawyer, Mr. Cummings had lost a court skirmish with the aluminum company; hardly had he moved to Washington when the Government accused old Andrew Mellon of tax evasion, his chief company of monopoly. Because his. R. B. Mellon's and Chairman Davis' families own 51% of Alcoa's stock, Andrew Mellon, though dead now, was listed as a defendant last week. Actual suit in this anti-trust case was brought by Homer Cummings more than a year ago (TIME...
...subpoena ALCOA's files on all transactions relating to its growth; seeking to limit the final trial to as few issues as possible, ALCOA promptly fought the attempt to make this a blanket case. Last week's hearings on this point, therefore, looked like the last skirmish before the trial...