Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They were the Democratic National Committee's brilliant chief press agent, Charles Michelson, whose first feat was to smear Hoover, and his G. O. P. counterpart, Franklyn Thomas Waltman Jr. Dark, 35-year-old Republican Waltman paid elaborate tribute to the libertarian legacy of Democratic Patron Saint Thomas Jefferson, worked himself into oratorical fervor: "We recall Jefferson's words tonight, not solely out of academic interest in a mighty battle which was won in behalf of the liberties of Americans, but because once again in this country, as abroad, freedom of press and freedom of speech is under...
Versatile Miss Dorothy Sands has been chosen for the title role of Alcestis. The role of Admetus, her husband, will be played by Michael Linenthal, 37. John Profit appears as Hercules, the Greek counterpart of a modern gridiron hero...
Although the 48 State constitutions generally resemble their venerable counterpart, one major difference is that most are considerably shorter-lived. Three-quarters of the State constitutions provide for conventions at the behest of their constituents, making the average age of a State constitution between 20 and 25 years. New Hampshire has had eleven constitutional conventions, Louisiana ten, New York seven. In 1894 New York's Legislature made mandatory a referendum every 20 years after 1916 on whether a convention should be called. In 1916 the voters apathetically said No. In 1936 they apathetically said Yes. So last week...
...Comes Back (Warner Bros.). Sock for sock, the prize ring cannot compare with its cinema counterpart for fury, excitement, sustained pace; this, in spite of the fact that few actors are natural sockers. Newest and most natural of the cinema sockers is rangy, 190-pound, six-footer Wayne Morris. Socker Morris, turning 24 this week, lashes out with the unrepressed indignation of a small boy fighting over a marble game. And he really knows something about boxing. In the course of training for his Warner Bros. career, he has K.O.'d a whole row of professional roughnecks...
...idea to recommend, and be mentioned little else. The Dean wants to improve the quality of building now being done, and be realizes that this can only be done by improving the ability of those who do the building as is the workman, so is his product. The journalistic counterpart of this idea provides a similar basis for the Nieman Fellowships. Thus Dean Hudnut plans to require the students of his School to take an outside apprenticeship of at least six months before graduation, the object being more practical experience with actual tools of the trade. In short, he wants...