Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Administrative law is the name lawyers have for rulings of Government agencies like the Federal Trade Commission and National Labor Relations Board, to whom "lawmaking" authority is delegated by Congress. With over 100 such agencies functioning today, administrative lawmakers rival judges and legislatures as a nuisance to lawyers. Last week the House of Delegates (legislative body) of the American Bar Association, to which 16% of U. S. lawyers subscribe, convened in Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel to discuss two new brands of nuisance insurance...
That night in Washington some 800 delegates representing 274 organizations met to urge lifting the embargo. A rival "Keep the Embargo" meeting packed in 4,000, turned 2,000 away. Adroitly its sponsors presented not only Catholic churchmen as speakers but a Protestant onetime Ambassador to Spain, Irwin Laughlin, and a one time counsel of President Roosevelt (during his second term as Governor of New York State), Martin Conboy, who argued neutrality's case...
Hinton finished the mile and a half course in two minutes and four seconds to beat his nearest rival, Art Gardiner, by twelve seconds. Hinton's time was fifteen seconds better than the best time on the Sherbourne trail last year...
...such an outspoken attack on her totalitarian customers. Mr. Hull, unwilling to compromise President Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy by insisting that the U. S. have its way, allowed Argentina to substitute a pact which specified no particular kind of "foreign intervention." Then Brazil, traditional South American rival of Argentina, balked at accepting the leadership of her southern neighbor. Finally, a second, slightly rephrased Argentine draft was accepted...
That CBS was out to rival RCA in every way, young Mr. Paley neither denied nor affirmed. Merely pointing out that record sales are currently booming, he preferred to relate a curious little chapter of corporate counterpoint: one of American Record Corp.'s subsidiaries is famed old Columbia Phonograph Co. which dipped CBS into the baptismal fount eleven years ago, sold the little starveling three months later...