Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement would be issued, every man in Washington who had a press pass prepared to attend. In Georgia and South Carolina, 4,000 striking cotton workers had snarled Labor's section of the march toward Recovery. Police engaged in pitched battle with rioting silk workers in New Jersey. Rival coal mine unionists were killing each other in Illinois. Angered by falling commodity prices, disgruntled farmers were getting ready to embroil the Midwest in an agricultural strike (see p.11). Rural agitation for inflation had raised an issue from which the Administration had been dancing away for weeks. But by noon...
There are, of course, others. There is Roger Hall, red-headed giant, able seaman; spawn, according to his rival, of smugglers and godless renegades; a man to stir the thin blood of Hope Langdon; canny even in his cups. There is Mate John Disney, widower, envious of Roger's virility, husband-to-be of Hope Langdon; a man weakened by the fringes of a Puritanical conscience. There are Jonas Dodge, Master, Zeke Nyas, Indian Quartermaster, and a dozen others. Mr. LaFarge has portayed all these swiftly and surely. But towering above them all is Jeremiah Disney, nephew of the mate...
...highly developed during his struggle for power in Germany, consists in alternate hammer blows and conciliatory gestures. This method kept his German political foes in turmoil, helped to paralyze their resistance until the Nazis were able at last to smash, dissolve and confiscate the property and funds of all rival German parties. Last week, trying out his technique on France, Chancellor Hitler let it be known that the "real purpose" of his speech was to offer Premier Daladier of France an opportunity to settle all outstanding ques-tions between the two nations by direct negotiation outside the framework of either...
...brother's will: he bequeaths them an antique mortgage-ridden ferryboat. Living on the boat when Tillie and Gus come to claim it are Tillie's niece (Jacqueline Wells), her husband and an imperturbable infant (Baby LeRoy). It becomes necessary, in order to thwart a rival ferryboat operator, for Fields, Skipworth, Wells and gurgling LeRoy to win a race in the Keystone in the course of which LeRoy falls overboard in a washtub and Fields stokes the boilers with boxes of roman candles. Part parody of Tugboat Annie, part pure farce, Tillie...
This was a threat that no railroadman (except the heads of the seven key roads) could ignore- particularly Daniel Willard, whose efficient and progressive B. & O. Messrs. Prince & Barriger planned to dump into the lap of its big rival, Pennsylvania. Last week at a Baltimore banquet, Lawyer John J. Cornwell, onetime Governor of West Virginia and now B. & O.'s general counsel, told the world what was going through Daniel Willard's long head. "This so-called Prince plan . . . is destructive in every phase except as to the interests of the seven big railroads in the country...