Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manager, William Duffy, who was recently cataloged as one of Manhattan's six foremost public enemies, with a pat on the shoulder. Promoter of the Sharkey-Carnera bout was James J. ("Jimmy") Johnston. Because this and his previous prizefight enterprises last summer had established him as a serious rival, Madison Square Garden Corp. last week offered to make Promoter Johnston general manager. Promoter Johnston accepted the offer, planned to take up his new post, at a salary of $25,000 a year, immediately. Observers suspected that he might supply elements of shrewdness amounting almost to guile, a promotorial intuition which...
...light ends, so far as is known at present, although Record is again fit. Crickard will probably begin in the backfield, otherwise the lineup is the regular one. On the whole it is but reasonable that Coach Sasse's men should again be favored over their Crimson rival...
Greatest hindrance to the plan was known to be Pennsylvania's request for trackage rights over the Nickel Plate along Lake Erie. Although this is a C. & O. road New York Central was unwilling to grant such a privilege to its powerful rival. In the plan filed with the Commission last week no mention was made of this embarrassing point and opinion was that it had been tacitly ignored for the moment by Pennsylvania in return for silence on New York Central's part on other points...
...well with The Merry Widow and The Chocolate Soldier (TIME, Sept. 21). Aborn's Mikado opened in Boston last month beginning a four-week repertory engagement at the Colonial Theatre. It was booked by the Erlangers. Xo warm friends of the Erlangers are the Shuberts. They formed a rival company, called it "The Bostonians" after the famed troupe which flourished 25 years ago, opened a week earlier with The Mikado in Boston's Lyric Theatre. They threatened to head off the Aborn troupe wherever it should go. But after two weeks the Shubert Mikado, lacking patronage, ceased...
...From London to Manhattan last fortnight came such a reporter, Margaret Lane, daughter of Editor-in-Chief Harry George Lane of the Northcliffe newspapers (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Evening News, etc.). On leave of absence from her job on Lord Beaverbrook's London Express, bitter rival of her father's organization, Miss Lane found work with Hearst's International News Service. Her first assignment was the Collings murder case of which she said in Publishers' Service, tradepaper: "I found the Collings mys tery very funny. . . . Everyone was so casual and friendly. I found policemen with their...