Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School, by way of the Bank of England, proffered and then received back the stormy petrel of inflation, Oliver M. W. Sprague. It remained for the Law School, where liberalism burns with a less frozen flame, to uphold the University's reputation on capitol hill and to beat its rival Law Schools hands down in point of influence on the Administration. Thanks to Professors Landis, Sayre, and most of all to the resourceful Felix Frankfurter, Harvard apparently has at least the legal destines of the New Deal well in hand...
...children Tanya and Mischa convinced nine-year-old Anne Bullitt that "Moscow is swell and the theatres are grand!" War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Vorishilov, who was picked and successfully popularized by Stalin to efface from Soviet minds the Red Army's oldtime War Lord and Stalin's rival Trotsky. With "Klim" at a dinner tendered Ambassador Bullitt by the Litvinoffs were the Commissars of Foreign Trade, Light Industry and Internal Supply. With Foreign Trade Commissar Arkadi Rosengoltz, Ambassador Bullitt had "a long and interesting conversation." Necessarily, however, his Moscow visit was devoted not to trade but to finding...
...slow but gaudy melodrama of the lavender-&-horse-pistols school, Jezebel is notable mainly because it gives Miriam Hopkins (selected for the lead when Tallulah Bankhead fell ill) a chance to rival her cinema performance as a Southern vixen in The Story of Temple Drake...
...front to 19 nations which have defaulted on their external debts. Foreign bonds are so widely distributed in the U. S. that the Council last week estimated that the average holding was only three $1,000 bonds. The Council will cooperate with existing committees, will eliminate confusion arising from rival committees attempting to negotiate with the same debtor, will pass on all settlements. But the Council views its job as something more than squeezing blood out of turnips. Well aware of the effect of private debts on international relations and foreign trade, it will seek financial support not only from...
Counsellor at Law (Universal). George Simon (John Barrymore) is a talented criminal lawyer, happy in his profession but less fortunate in his home life. This set of circumstances provokes him, before the picture is over, to make a suicidal dash for the window of his deluxe office. A conservative rival has threatened to have him disbarred for framing an alibi for a petty thief ten years before. Simon has thwarted this move by discovering the rival's mistress and illegitimate child but his triumph is spoiled by the actions of Mrs. Simon (Doris Kenyon). Instead of staying with...