Word: tiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London's Surrealist Group, led by scholarly, pale-faced, silken-voiced Herbert Read, who occupies the magnificently ambiguous position of arch Surrealist apologist and editor of the Burlington Magazine, England's most conservative art publication. Presented by Professor Read, the Breton manifesto led to a bitter tiff between Communist and Trotskyist members, finally to a breakup. Last word came from Gallery Director E. L. T. Mesens, who suggested that the English Surrealists had never been worth their salt anyway, having always abstained from such direct action as driving horses into theatre foyers on first nights of distasteful plays...
White-haired little Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who fortnight ago was supposed to have had his passport revoked by Italy's Fascist Government, booked last-minute passage on the Normandie, sailed without his wife, who had accompanied him as far as Paris. Asked by a reporter what his latest tiff with the Fascists was all about...
...death-knell of the very company which supplied them with power-big Electric Bond & Share Co.'s little Costa Rican affiliate which supplies San José and 32 nearby towns with electricity. For a year the Central American Republic's unicameral Congress has engaged in a tiff with Bond & Share. Bond & Share sought a new franchise for its affiliate, asked permission to charge higher rates. The Congress considered the proposed rates exorbitant. Month ago the Congress broke the resultant deadlock by voting 40 to 1 to expropriate the company...
...early this month Agent Myron Selznick tried to double Cinemactress Loretta Young's salary (about $35,000 a picture) and get her the right to work for other studios than Twentieth Century-Fox,* outraged Producer Joseph M. Schenck ordered him off the lot. Last week observers thought this tiff might have reverberations: As new president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack its clients' salaries so high that "to meet the demands would be ruinous...
...approve remarriage where it seems justifiable. However, a minority report was offered by Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. One of the Church's outstanding liberals, who left the deanship of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine after a tiff with Bishop Manning. Dr. Robbins stands with conservatives in this case, believing that any change would weaken the Christian ideal of marriage. Furthermore, under the leadership of Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell of Providence, 1,300 clergy or 25% of the Church's priesthood signed a petition against liberalization, and last...