Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candidate Battle, a state senator from Charlottesville, won by a comfortable 23,000 votes over his only serious competitor, wellborn, New-Dealing Francis Pickens Miller, who had the help of Virginia's growing Negro vote and its labor unions...
Frankie Frisch, 51, baseball's old "Fordham Flash," is an ingenious man and a highly vocal competitor. Once, while managing Pittsburgh, he tried to get himself thrown out of a hopelessly lost ball game in Brooklyn so that he could hustle up to New Rochelle, N.Y. and tend his flower garden. "No you don't, Frisch," said the umpire he was sassing. "Get back on the bench and go home with the rest of us." When Frisch was running the celebrated Gashouse Gang in St. Louis, Dizzy Dean used to needle him "just to hear that Dutchman roar...
...coaches and two assistant coaches, including Cornell's venerable (85) Jack Moakley. His well-tutored pupils won six events. In his 50 years as track coach at Cornell, Jack Moakley had developed more championship track squads than he could remember. But he won even more renown as a competitor who put as much emphasis on sportsmanship as on winning. In 1920, when he went to Antwerp as coach of the U.S. Olympic team, Jack Moakley had time for all foreign athletes who sought his advice and guidance. When Canada's star hurdler, Earl Thomson, went lame in practice...
...hugely enjoying his new eminence as current king of the links. The car bringing him to the Celebrities Tournament at Washington's Army-Navy Country Club was duly escorted by motorcycle cops. As he changed into working clothes (electric blue slacks and yellow T-shirt), a fellow competitor, General Omar Bradley, came over to shake hands. "I've been reading a lot about you," grinned the general...
...Trade Commission, wanted to permit freight absorption, a mainstay of the basing point system. But O'Mahoney said that the bill would only put into law what FTC has been saying ever since the Supreme Court decision, namely, that any manufacturer could absorb freight charges to meet a competitor's prices at distant points so long as there was no conspiracy to fix prices. What FTC had objected to was collusive freight absorption. Much of the confusion, he thought, had been caused not so much by the decision as by those who wanted to pressure Congress into legalizing...