Word: rival
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Frank Melville Jr., 74, founder and board chairman of Melville Shoe Corp. whose chains of shoe stores (John Ward, Thom McAn) are among the world's largest; in Manhattan. Melville Shoe Corp. sold its Rival chain last January, still owns 585 stores...
Significant is the report that comes from Oglethorpe University. Recently a professor, tinged with red, of a rival institution, was invited to speak to the International Relations Club. When he arrived, he was met by the spring football squad and firmly convinced that his presence was undesirable. "A most refreshing exhibition of good, old-fashioned Americanism," commented Oglethorpe's president, Thornwell Jacobs...
...Denver both the loud Post and its rival Rocky Mountain News spread the wrong news...
...stockholders promptly adjourned for three hours. A director declared that on the last vote control was "up in the air." But during the interval American Smelting was apparently persuaded to sell out to its rival and withdraw. When the stockholders reassembled, four Phelps Dodge directors were elected directors of United Verde, and Louis Shattuck Gates, president of Phelps Dodge, became president of United Verde. With United Verde's annual production capacity of 68,000 tons to add to its own 168,000, Phelps Dodge will outrank Anaconda Copper in size, become second biggest U. S. copper company. Biggest: Kennecott...
...picture made on The Isle of Ghosts, New Zealand, by the one-time editor of Pearson's Magazine, these hopes seemed reasonable and it is therefore the more painful that they are not realized. In Hei Tiki, as usual, the chieftain's daughter takes up with a rival tribal chief's son. Her camera-conscious father shakes his battle-ax, the black warriors jump into their canoes and there is the customary stone and mud-pie fight around the village walls. "Hei Tiki" is the love charm which girls of the Maori tribe wear around their necks...