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Probably the first General Court-Harvard tiff occurred in 1659 when the legislature stopped a proposed College printing of Thomas a Kempis' "Imitations of Christ," a book which the lawmakers considered "unsafe to be infused among the people." Forty years later the legislators ordered a religious test of Harvard faculty and students but the Governor, Lord Bellomont, vetoed the scheme...
...minor tiff between Harvard and the Cambridge Fire Department was settled peaceably yesterday afternoon after a quick conference between the city Board of Appeals and two University representatives...
...Zurich, gossipy rumors of a tiff between Cinemactress Jennifer Jones, 30, and her boss, Cinemagnate David O. Selzniclc, 47, prompted a strong statement from him: "It's an absolute big lie that Miss Jones and I have had or are having any disagreement. We are great friends and always have been . . . The date of our marriage has not been fixed. To decide upon that is up to the lady...
After this tiff, Fairless' statement that in 1949 the steel industry hoped to turn out 68 million tons of finished steel, 3,000,000 more than the past year's peacetime record, seemed like an anticlimax. His point: without the industry's high earnings, steel companies could never have built the plants for this expansion. In the first nine months of 1948 U.S. Steel had spent $198 million on property...
There would also be discussions about European colonies in the New World (Guatemala, fresh from a tiff with Britain over Belize, wants them declared a menace) and about recognition of de facto governments (one de facto regime, Nicaragua's, will be represented at Bogota). But the chief talk will be about money...