Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fraternal intercourse. There are some 60,000 Chinese in the U. S. Most of them belong to a Tong, of which there are about 15. Initiation fees, dues, give the Tongs big treasuries, tempt the leaders. Most Tong wars are caused by defection to the ranks of rival organizations, business rivalry, racketeering. Most notable Tongs are: On Leong, Hip Sing, Yan Wo, Tai Look, Tai Pang, Tong On. Over all western Tongs is the Peace Society, over all eastern Tongs, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, both supreme arbiters in their territories of Chinatown difficulties...
...away when the shooting began. Among this and other wild, vague reasons given for expecting a Diamond-Capone war the most credible was that the Midwest roadhouse beer trade, lately an unchallenged Capone concession, had been encroached upon by Diamond's trucks, that Capone wanted to force his rival back to Brooklyn, intended no Brooklyn attack. Mrs. Mae Western, worried wife of the missing Chateau proprietor, told police of a new, mysterious Diamond beer-running combination from which her husband, onetime intimate of the leader, had been excluded...
...been married eight months. In this period she has spent three months in Europe playing tennis. A brash guess was that the title she has won so often no longer seemed worth trying for. Her absence from Forest Hills took edge off the arrival of her most capable rival from abroad, Betty Nuthall, 19, of London...
...weaseling on Prohibition, lost to Wilbur McKinley White, managing editor of the Toledo Times, an out-&-out Wet. Chalmers' defeat was a direct blow to Chalmers' prime supporter, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. Toledo's G. O. P. boss. Nominee White's paper's rival, the Toledo -Blade, turned Wet, supported...
Teenie Weenie. Still profiting from the fad-of-the-land last week were the owners of Tom Thumb Golf courses (TIME, July 14, Aug. 11). But a new rival arose. Advertised Stern Brothers, Manhattan department store: "Play on your own lawn. . . . Teenie Weenie Lawn Golf . . . the new game sensation...