Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First off, the candidates for President-General tested their strength by rival teas. Mrs. Becker, with Mrs. Magna to help her, served ice cream, cake and punch at the Mayflower Hotel, drew 3,000 Daughters and friends. At the Willard, Mrs. Gillentine, serving only lemonade, drew a scant 2,000 but outdid her rival with a string of celebrities including Speaker of the House Joseph Wellington Byrns and his wife...
...become general counsel for Mr. Hearst and all his enterprises. He had negotiated Hearst's purchase of that newspaper in 1919, taking the job of publisher with the late, crusading Fremont Older as editor. Virtually his first task was to deal with a reporters' strike. While rival publishers excitedly fired "agitators" from their staffs, Neylan soothingly sifted his own newshawks' grievances down to a complaint that they were forbidden to accept free theatre tickets. He rescinded the order; the strikers went happily back to work. A bitter opponent of the Newspaper Guild today, Lawyer Neylan likes...
...quaint, long-slumbering Free City into a frenzied "Little Teutonia." Last week came the crux of a Danzig election deliberately forced by Nazis. They already had a working majority in the Danzig Diet but needed a two-thirds majority to scrap Danzig's democratic Constitution, crush rival parties and subjugate the Jews...
Traveling Saleslady (Warner) briskly relates the. adventures, commercial and romantic, of a young woman (Joan Blondell) who, to spite her father for not giving her a job in his tooth paste company, . goes on the road for his rival selling dentifrice with liquor flavors. Complicated principally by the necessity for outwitting her father's star salesman (William Gargan) while she falls in love with him, Angela Twitchell's career reaches its peak when, at a Chicago drug convention, she sees to it that her rival and fiance arrives late in a plane whose pilot she has hired...
...team of Edward Langenau, Dick Ford, and Webster Williams by a three bout win over their most formidable rival, Navy, which left the Midshipmen far behind and brought the total of 25 bouts won tied with New York for first place, but Harvard had only 25 touches against it compared to 31 against N.Y.U...