Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter-holiday trippers, who have been pouring into Mexico over the new Pan-American highway in increasing numbers, were inclined to regard this as a slight overstatement. Mexico is far from Sunday-afternoon quiet. Almost daily occurrences for the past few months have been bloody strikes, clashes between rival labor groups, bandit raids, ominous grumbles by the newly-enfranchised peons against the failure of President Lázaro Cárdenas' agrarian program and revolts by disenfranchised landlords. Crux of the trouble is Cárdenas' lack of money. With a failing credit he has had to curtail...
...made friends with a caddy near her employer's estate, was not at all abashed by her classy opponents. The field was strong but she was stronger. With lusty drives and delicate putts, Dominga Capati gave the whole field a scrubbing, finished five strokes ahead of her nearest rival...
...University is to be blamed for allowing this situation to arise, it may be said by way of defense that never before has it had to cope with friction and strife between rival factions of its employees. Much of the agitation in favor of the "inside union" is coming from employees in responsible positions who erroneously believe that Harvard favors this group and hope to better themselves by backing it. The University should make it absolutely clear to all employees that such agitation cannot be sanctioned, and that where it involves an executive, constitutes an illegality. Once this is made...
...Manhattan hearings of rival claims of Massachusetts, Texas, Florida and New York for inheritance taxes on the $49,000,000 estate of the late capricious Colonel Edward Rowland Robinson Green (TIME, April 19, et seq.), the following evidence was introduced...
...Goldwyn Follies (Samuel Goldwyn). Producer Goldwyn is no subscriber to the theory of his rival producer, Darryl Zanuck: that a screen musicomedy should be tightly woven, integrating songs and dances as part of its body proper. Mr. Goldwyn's technique is to spin a revue: a slender thread of narrative linking a series of specialties...