Word: skirmishes
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...been known as a friend of public power, a foe of C.I.O. Somewhat excitable by temperament, Mr. Hoffman by last week was downright jumpy. Though Monroe, Mich., where C.I.O. was beaten fortnight ago when Republic Steel's local plant was reopened after a brisk picket line skirmish, is not in Congressman Hoffman's district, a brief visit there was enough...
Last week, to Newark's fury, Mayor LaGuardia finally won a skirmish in his fight to have a home field supersede Newark Airport as Manhattan's main air terminal. Fortnight ago he personally detonated the dynamite which felled a power-house chimney which was the only approach hazard at Floyd Bennett Field. Last week this improvement finally persuaded an important airline to try Floyd Bennett; American Airlines inaugurated a "summer service" of one plane a day from Floyd Bennett to Boston. American's eight other Boston flights will still start from Newark and all will terminate there...
...accidents were not lacking last week when the first skirmish of the neutrality war of 1937 was fought. Arrayed on one side was 1) Robert Cuse, naturalized Latvian of Jersey City who had forced the State Department, legally but against its will, to grant him a license to export $2,777,000 of second-hand airplanes and war materials to the Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. n); 2) Captain José Santa María of the Spanish freighter Mar Cantabrico which lay at a Brooklyn pier loading Mr. Cuse's war goods; 3) Richard L. Dineley...
Even before Ochsner died the legal battle had begun in a desultory skirmish the luckless geologist having been given to vague, if not sly, business methods Somewhat the same methods also seemed to have carried over into his marital relations. While he was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 he elopec with a nurse named Frances Anna Strasilipka, a Bohemian shoemaker's daughter whom he deserted five months later, leaving her with child, which died at birth That was the last Wife No. i ever heard of Washington Henry Ochsner until someone sent her a clipping...
...quarter there is, of course, no attempt made to catch the continuity or the integrity of the speeches. But every major address is represented by an excerpt and the scraps are in general judiciously chosen. The flavor of each man's remarks is fairly well indicated. The diverting little skirmish between the President of the University and the Governor of the Commonwealth, though not reproduced with all its spice, is indeed there. Mr. Curley is not shown thrusting out his pugnacious jaw, but Mr. Conant is happily depicted connecting with...