Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then it went vocal in the largest way, with two huge musical spectacles and promise of more to come. In Soldier Field the Chicago Tribune staged its fourth annual Chicagoland Music Festival, a nocturnal orgy of community singing and bandplaying, polished off with a prodigious display of fireworks. Though rival newspapers enthusiastically ignored the festival, it was a thumping spectacle such as visitors at fairs love to see. Some 85,000 spectators vigorously applauded as Bandmaster Arthur Pryor directed massed bands through favorite Sousa marches. They were awed by a rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture eked...
...yellow journalism like a rat to a sewer. By sensational news stories, circulation-forcing dodges, in a month he had quintupled the Chronicle's circulation. He tried to drive the competing paper off the streets by bribing or terrorizing the newsdealers. He reprinted every want-ad in his rival's columns, then claimed the largest want-ad section in the city. His reporters got him the scandalous facts on the city's key men, then he got the key men. ... In five years he had cleaned up a million dollars...
...even in off-hours. Then love came to Ella; his name was Delbert. But a kitteny young cousin snatched Delbert away by seducing him. Ella put away her wedding dress and stood by for further trouble. It came: Death took Delbert and his kittenish wife, leaving Ella with her rival's baby. She called the baby Hope, brought her up as her niece...
...that way, boy. You're giving away too much weight" Then a flashback to his self-education when ambitious Sally walked track in his stead, his first promotion, his son's birth. Then another flash forward to middle-age when the divorcee daughter of a rival tycoon saves her father's business life by persuading Garner to fall in love with her. This leads to the price of "the power and the glory": the broken-hearted suicide of Sally with the question, "Why shouldn't you do what you want to once before you die?" This...
...Chicago Tribune has approved defrilling Chicago schools on the ground that retrenchment is the only way to head off a chaotic year like the past one. Last week it was pleased to note that the Save-Our-Schools Committee and its rival the Herald & Examiner were wrong about one thing. They had insisted that it would cost $800,000 to make the old junior high schools suitable for seniors. The contracts let last week totaled only $87,686. The Herald & Examiner countered that this was merely the preliminary cost, that there would be more to pay later...