Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Expert Cam Shalton, Sleuth John T. Rogers (who in 1931 got a bonus of more than $6,000 for solving the kidnapping of Dr. Isaac Dee Kelly Jr.), Political Commentator Curtis Belts. When a big story breaks the Post-Dispatch sends so many men out to cover it, that rival newshawks complain that at the scene they can see nothing but Post-Dispatch men. The importance of last week's changes to the Post-Dispatch itself was not easy to predict. The paper has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Among the qualities that have justified that comparison...
Frank Jay Gould leased his fire-gutted Palais de la Mediterranee at Nice to the rival Monte Carlo Casino for 1,000,000 francs ($65,900) a year for 30 years, bought a $25,000 estate at Ardsley-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. In 1913 the youngest son of old Jay Gould sailed for France because he said the U. S. Government meddled too much in business. This autumn he will return to the U. S. for the first time in 21 years, live in his new home at Ardsley...
Last week the Herrick bylines were divorced, though the couple stayed happily married. John's remained in the Tribune, but Genevieve's switched over to the rival Chicago Daily News where it topped a new women's page column called "In Capitol Letters." The Administration-baiting Tribune said the change was due to disagreement over policy, with the implication that Mrs. Herrick would not conform to the paper's hostile attitude toward the Roosevelts. She said she quit for sentimental reasons which only she would understand...
Half century ago Holabird & Roche and Burnham & Root were Chicago's two top-flight architectural firms. Today's Holabird & Root is the inheritor of the talents of the older generation. Best known architectural-partnership (formed in 1928) west of the Allegheny Mountains, its main Chicago rival is Graham, Anderson, Probst & White whose new Field Building shows a vertical treatment typical of Holabird & Root...
Bonthron's customary strategy is to stay close behind a rival he fears, scare him into running fast, cut him down in the last 200 yards. But, says Lovelock, "I always run as slowly as I can." Last week, on the rough clay track, cut up by a touring rodeo and softened by rain, these two great milers let their second string men&151;Leach of Oxford, Vipond of Cornell&151;set the pace for the first two laps. Then Lovelock took the lead with Bonthron close behind. Knowing Bonthron wanted him to set a fast pace, Lovelock...