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Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen
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According to P. Erdõs, A. Hajnal: On a property of families of sets, Acta Math. Acad. Sci. Hungar. 12 (1961), 87--123 (see page 90) the stronger result you formulated is a theorem of Bernstein from F. Bernstein, "Zur Theorie der trigonometrischen Reihen", Leipz. Bet. (Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königl. Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Math.phys. Klasse) 60 (1908), 325--338" MR. If you are looking for further results, "property B" is the keyword you need.

I presented a minicourse on some related properties of families of sets on the 7th Young Set Theory Workshop in 2014, so my slides may contain some results you are interested in.

Lajos Soukup
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