Word: vendettas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months Mr. Chamberlain and myself have worked in close contact." But the rest of his speech warmly, even passionately, implied what has been common knowledge in Fleet Street: that the Prime Minister, ever since he succeeded Stanley Baldwin last May, has been pressing Mr. Eden to end his personal vendetta with Signor Mussolini, swallow his repugnance for Herr Hitler, and make a "business" deal with Italy and Germany at the expense of "principle...
...nothing was done about it, but Premier Blum does intend to introduce shortly a law compelling all French newsorgans to list and publish the sources from which they derive their income. It is against this that M. Guimier and his friends have been waging what became an open vendetta when the Premier forced him out of Havas. Under the new law the Premier's own newsorgan, Le Populaire, will have to print that it is largely subsidized by the Socialist Party: L'Humanité will have to print that it is subsidized by the Communist Party; the Action...
...mere procession of elections, legislatures, murders. It was "a new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers, the idiosyncrasies of the City Hall clock, a new football coach at Yale, a vendetta in Mulberry Bend...
...Vendetta. Of merchandising wars, none is more famed than the Gimbels v. Macy's battle, in which the leader is Macy's with its policy of "underselling by 6% all competitors who do not sell for cash." Yet last week Gimbels parried with the flattest lie-direct yet seen in the war. "Forget it!" screeched the Gimbels advertisement, "Don't you believe for a minute that you can save a cent (to say nothing of six per cent) by buying for cash. . . . Gimbels prices are often a dollar less but rarely a penny more. . . . Gimbels will...