Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last few years the Nanking Government has paid a subsidy to the rival Canton Government which has always taken the money while pulsating with opposition-now secret, now blatant-to Generalissimo Chiang. Last week Canton's blatancy became a scream as her Government, headed by General Chen Chi-tang, who had just received an especially large subsidy in the hope of squaring him, telegraphed to Nanking a demand that the Generalissimo resign...
Such was Sloan's prowess that when the late William Collins Whitney in 1900 determined to beat his Wall Street rival, the late James R. Keene, in the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay at any cost, he sent to England for Tod Sloan. It cost him the traveling expenses of the jockey and his absurd retinue, plus a reputed fee of $25,000. Astride Financier Whitney's Ballyhoo Bey, Sloan won a masterful race, quickly returned to his glories abroad. His downfall came when the English Jockey Club revoked his license on charges that...
Sokoloff had been right on another score: He had found a symphonic public in New York without appealing to Philharmonic subscribers. And though he does not hope to rival the Philharmonic, a New York reputation is the first step in the fulfillment of his big idea: To supply finest orchestral music to the many big-little Eastern cities which cannot afford to pay for high-priced orchestras like the Philharmonic or the Boston. Last week the New York reputation seemed assured and the New York Orchestra began to justify its name...
...October Pennsylvania posted with the I. C. C. store-door tariffs for its entire system. So did Erie and Grand Trunk. Thus an entirely new factor was suddenly introduced into the highly-competitive trunk line territory. New York Central, Pennsylvania's traditional rival, led 16 other big eastern roads in a mighty howl of protest to the I. C. C. They failed to agree with Pennsylvania's William Wallace Atterbury that store-door service was the only way to wean back l.c.l. freight now in the hands of truckers. They doubted that the service would be worth...
...rest of the speeches were also informal, and contained much repartee between the toastmaster and the speaker, but none to rival that between Harvard's new president and the scathing gentleman with the gavel...