Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even in St. Louis, Chicago's traditional rival for leadership of the Mississippi Valley wholesale trade, buyers swarmed aboard before the staff had finished breakfast. As soon as the train was on siding at each stop telephones were hooked up with local exchanges so that customers and prospects could be invited aboard. A teletype in the office car clicked out rush orders direct to Chicago. Marshall Field's divulged no official sales figure but newsmen who accompanied the expedition estimated sales for the first seven days of the trip...
...much money. A small-town banker in Algona, in northern Iowa, he had taught school there, married one of the teachers, made a little money as a contractor in rural mail routes. For a while he edited a local weekly called the Advance. His great & good friend was the rival paper's editor. Harvey Ingham. In 1902 Editor Ingham went to Des Moines to edit the down-at-heel Register & Leader, persuaded his friend Cowles to buy the paper. Price: $300,000. What Mr. Cowles thought he was buying was a sheet with $160,000 debts, 33,000 circulation...
...leadership." The Committee on Academic Freedom makes no such charge in its report in the Bulletin, and publishes no specific instance of unfairness or incapacity. On the contrary its report credits Dr. Kerr with substantial results as the educational leader for over 25 years of Oregon State College-bitter rival...
...plans for becoming President of the Commonwealth. He had entered into a coalition with his onetime political enemies and between them they had agreed to a comfortable division of the new offices. There was to be but one ticket: Manuel Quezon for President; Sergio Osmeña, his onetime rival, for Vice President. Manuel Roxas, No. 3 man, would be Speaker of the single legislative body under the new Constitution. And the excess of leaders resulting from the coalition of two factions would be quietly taken care of by appointments to the Supreme Court. But last week...
...historic occasion. In 1928 Mr. Lowden was Herbert Hoover's chief rival for the Republican nomination. When the party platform at Kansas City went rankly reactionary, the progressive son-in-law of the late George Pullman (sleeping cars) withdrew in a huff, left the convention delegates with but one answer to the question "Who but Hoover?" Last week Mr. Lowden, 74. was no longer a candidate but his work and words were still an important factor in Midwestern Republicanism. And furthermore he was about to be the chief speaker at a great Republican rally at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Hoover...