Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poor Europe! Stupid Europe!", wrote onetime French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot in L'Ere Nouvelle last week. Proposing an economic federation of European states to resist Soviet "dumping" and U. S. "imperialism," he flayed his successful French political rival M. Briand for proposing a mere piddling political "United States of Europe" (TIME. Sept. 22 et ante). He concluded: "Poor Europe which is short sighted and refuses to unite! Stupid Europe which does not hear the crackings of its obsolete construction...
...forced landing in Canada, fought its way up to fifth place ahead of the Curtiss Kingbird. Flying across Kansas, Pilot Haldeman tried the cross-country tactics of Lindbergh and Hawks, climbed above 15,000 ft., there found a strong west wind to whisk him into Wichita ahead of his rival. Most telling test of the week occurred between Wyoming and Colorado, when the heavily loaded ships had to take off from high-altitude fields, clear a 9,400 ft. range into Denver...
...Argentine Government was little over a week old, the powers of Europe were falling over one another to recognize the new regime and thereby gain prestige, economic advantages. France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Scandinavian countries had already resumed normal diplomatic relations and Great Britain, chief U. S. rival in Argentina, was about to follow suit. U. S. businessmen in Buenos Ayres were cabling anxiously, begging the State Department to hurry and save them from economic disadvantage. Yet Statesman Stimson felt he must not act too promptly lest color be lent to the rumors that the U. S., ill-favored...
Massachusetts. By a scant 7,600 votes William Morgan Butler, dry onetime Senator, won the Republican Senatorial nomination over his chief rival Eben S. Draper, Wet. Nominee Butler, old friend of Calvin Coolidge, had the support of the Old Guard, Candidate Draper of the Young Guard. The total Wet Republican vote in the state was some 15,000 more than that by which Nominee Butler won. Without difficulty was Republican Governor Frank Gilman Allen renominated just a few hours before his wife bore him a daughter...
...Army, the team that is the object of every move on the Harvard field those days, has arranged for Boston University to provide the opening opposition and give its new coach, Major Sasse, an opportunity to try out his Warner system. The Big Green has carded Norwich, the same rival that received such a drubbing at the hands of the Indians in the opening tilt of the season last year. Dartmouth and Norwich will complete 25 years of rivalry today...