Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MacCracken, one-time Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, helped to have him jailed for ten days for contempt of the Senate (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934, et seq.). Now Sleuth Jurney, on behalf of his Senatorial masters, was out to hijack a prize utility lobby witness captured by rival House investigators. Flanked by two deputies, Sergeant Jurney plunked himself in the rear seat of an official Senate limousine. Three newshawks scrambled in with them. Behind, in a dozen other cars and taxicabs, came more newshawks and photographers. The chase was on, the chase for elusive Howard Colwell ("Pimpernel") Hopson, roly...
When, after such proceedings, Witness Hopson fell into his hands, Chairman O'Connor naturally was in no mood to share his treasure with his rival. But no sooner had Mr. Hopson begun his testimony before the House Rules Committee (TIME, Aug. 19) than Senator Black tried to steal him. The first attempt to serve a Senate subpena was foiled by Representative O'Connor's agents, who surrounded Witness Hopson as he left the hearing, ganged the Senate process server. Next time Representative O Connor had Witness Hopson on the stand, he found him just as affable as at the first...
...Because the Flandin Cabinet fell while he was at sea and a rival politician on the spot in Paris copped his job of Minister of Merchant Marine in the new Laval Cabinet. Friends on the Normandie warned M. Bertrand that this would happen, urged him to call up M. Laval by radio telephone. ''That is not done!" exploded French M. Bertrand. "I cannot remind the President of the Council that I exist, by telephone...
...until the discovery of the official marriage documents in 1905. The rumor of his marriage spread at a time when anti-Catholic feeling was strong. Through a spokesman in the House of Lords, he publicly denied his marriage. Debts of ?600,000 made him desperate. Mrs. Fitzherbert's rival, Lady Jersey, intrigued to break their relationship. Suddenly the prince abandoned Mrs. Fitzherbert and officially took to wife Princess Caroline of Brunswick in order to raise money quickly. The Princess of Wales was ugly, slovenly, insane "in a humdrum though crazy way" and suffered one of the most wretched married...
...star, was just the same little girl to whom he had delivered groceries. (He had some justification, for Coralee's eyes, china-blue in Chapter One, turned dewy violet in Chapter Five.) When she spoke of her love for her son, he thought she was referring to a rival. While Camilo entertained her lavishly, kissed her, caressed her, and told her of his dreams of Argentina, she thought, the little goose, that it meant he loved another...