Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance in 658,503 (87 cubed) that quadruplets would be born, last week happened to Mrs. Lawrence R. Wycoff, 30, of Sac City, Iowa. Promptly she named the three girls and a boy Lavern Darlene, Lavonne Darene. Lorraine Delaine and Lester Dean, hoped they would all grow up to rival Mary, Mona, Leota and Roberta Keys. 19. of Hollis. Okla.. famed because they reputedly are the only quadruplets ever to reach maturity. "The Bunch of Keys" graduated from high school last year, have just come home from Baylor University at Waco...
From that time on Crazy Jack began to visit law courts. He was not worried by litigation. In fact he often fell asleep on the benches in courtrooms. A rival oilman had his first lease cancelled in court and Crazy Jack declared incompetent. A local businessman was appointed his guardian. Soon his farm was producing 12,000 bbl. of oil a day and his income had reached $60,000 a month...
...Wichita, Kans. last week the Eagle screamed with delight. Its owners, the brothers Victor & Marcellus Murdock, had the supreme joy of seeing their despised rival, the Beacon, convicted of fraudulent advertising. The Beacon and its publishers Max & Louis Levand were tried for labeling certain merchants' advertisements in their Beacon with a "Seal of Quality" bearing the signature of Dr. Russell Eugene Hobbs, until lately city physician. Dr. Hobbs had told the grand jury he had not consented to the use of his signature (TIME...
...cinema lacks the exciting detail, the intimacy of the book but neither book nor picture will help the police clear up the Rothstein murder. The picture's hero, Murray Golden (Spencer Tracy), might be any screen gambler from Hollywood. The plot, in which a rival underworld character grows jealous of Golden's success, and Golden's wife (Helen Twelvetrees) and mistress (Alice Faye) contest for his affections are standard cinema fictions. Nonetheless, Spencer Tracy's smooth, poker-faced performance and Edwin Burke's colorful direction give Now I'll Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein...
Sugar men have long known that Claude K. Boettcher has been acquiring stock in Great Western's most important rival, American Beet Sugar Co., second biggest unit in the industry. In 1929 American Beet had acquired control of Mormon-managed Amalgamated Sugar Co. Last week American announced that Claude K. Boettcher had been made board chairman of Amalgamated Sugar. Financial writers immediately guessed that Great Western was reaching out for control of American Beet, whose stock capitalization is only 406,000 shares. This Claude Boettcher denied, claiming that his holdings in American Beet were purely on his personal account...