Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English," the master shipper of Liverpool, has grown old and his power is slipping from him. He is, as a rival so aptly says, with "one foot in bankruptcy, the other in the grave." Yet he struggles to dominate his opponents, to maintain his independence, and to provide for the heirs who are the remnant of an ill-spent youth. It is this struggle that the actor portrays with his usual appreciation and subtlety. "Old English" dies in the end, the victim of his own will, and it is here that the movie falters dangerously. An obsequy held over...
With these formal forecasts by rival party leaders, the 1930 Congressional campaign moved into its last hot week. Biggest issue: The Slump. Chief Democratic argument: "Hoover hard times." Republican argument: No economic recovery under Democratic rule. The election's magic number...
...York, handed this message, asked him to define in a sentence what the civil war had been all about. "Generally speaking," he replied, "the revolution was the result of political favoritism and domination of the country by the coffee interests in the state of Sao Paulo," bitterest rival of Rio Grande...
Garnet Carter has part interest in patent rights on the use of cottonseed hulls or other "comminuted flocculent vegetable material" as putting greens (TIME, July 14; Aug. n). His patents on hollow-log and other hazards are still pending. A great rival-Miniature Golf Courses of America Inc.-had sprung up to compete with his Tom Thumb Golf. Wisely they compromised on the market: to Miniature Golf, the indoor courses; to Tom Thumb the open spaces. Latest Department of Commerce figures for this fast-growing U. S. business put the total investment at $325,000,000 for 30,000 courses...
Publicity attending the Van Rensselaer Lowestoft fraud suddenly launched upon newspapers and police stations disclosures of other art swindles from institutions and individuals previously too embarrassed to admit their gullibility. With some of these the slick team of Doran, Saunders & Cooke was directly connected, others were the work of rival tricksters...