Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running on the Democratic and Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket and the Republican machine went to pieces in dire defeat. This year WillB Hadley returned to the junk heap to pick up the fragments and take the Republican nomination for Mayor. To his distress he there found a deadly rival: S. Davis Wilson...
Meanwhile, Author Francis Rufus Bellamy, a onetime executive editor of The New Yorker, had conceived a variation of the Golden Book formula, produced it last May in Fiction Parade-a slight magazine reprinting current fiction. Last week it had only 30,000 subscribers, but it had one less rival. Proudly Editor Bellamy announced that, beginning October, his magazine will reprint old classics along with new, will carry no advertising, will be particularly attentive to poetry and art, will be named Fiction Parade & Golden Book...
...sporting goods store, is head of the American Association, owns two softball parks in St. Louis, controls three others. Ordinary softball parks seat 4,000, cost $3,500 to build and, with 10? admissions attracting crowds from 1,000 to capacity, may pay for themselves in a month. Principal rival to the American Association is the National Association, run by a onetime baseballer and sportswriter named Philip Rosier. Next year, Promoter Rosier plans a big-league circuit, with professional teams in nine Midwestern cities...
What made these statements more notable than they sounded last week was the fact that they came from the tall, fuzzy-haired Hungarian who in two years has made Great Britain's cinema industry a serious rival to Hollywood. When he arrived in Manhattan on his way to California to discuss his plans for the coming season, ship news reporters on the lie de France dutifully scribbled every word Alexander Korda said because they knew that, as head of London Film Productions, Ltd. he is today Britain's best in the way of a producer...
...appear in Redheads on Parade). Assured that when the picture is finished there will not be a platinum blonde left in the U.S., Walburn puts up $300,000, buys a pair of riding breeches to wear on the set, seeks Dixie's love and battles the wiles of his rival, Herman Bing, manufacturer of Platinola, who also wears riding breeches...