Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did John L. Lewis twice last week obey the instinct of years, refuse to violate that unionist taboo which forbids a union man to compromise himself even in the smallest way where a strike is concerned. In his larger relations with rival A. F. of L., however, last week Labor's Lewis smashed tradition in a big, ruthless...
...said simply: "The Executive Officers of the Committee for Industrial Organization are authorized to issue certificates of affiliation to national, international, state, regional, city central bodies and local groups whenever it is deemed such action is advisable." By that simple authorization the C.I.O. formally set itself up as a rival federation of labor to the American Federation of Labor. Last year when A. F. of L. leaders suspended C.I.O. unions, they charged that C.I.O. was an attempt to set up a "dual organization," a charge that was indignantly denied. Last week when the news reached the Federation's President...
...Chief rival of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister is the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, who last week scored heavy personal and political gains with a speech on naval and air defense which caught the warm approval of the House, recalled that Sir Samuel not many years ago was Secretary for Air and today is promoting close co-operation between these two fighting services, previously too often on quarrelsome terms...
Because Rexist Degrelle is a thorn in their flesh and because they appreciate that Premier van Zeeland stands for traditional, quiet Belgian politics and for no fancy isms, the three parties in the Belgian Cabinet coalition - Catholic, Liberal, Socialist - agreed to offer no rival candidates. The stage was thus set for a fight between parliamentary government and Rexism, a fight in which Degrelle will get no support that the wily Premier can possibly sidetrack...
When Rome correspondents are asked by editors abroad to scratch their heads and name an Italian who might be considered "Mussolini's rival" they generally name the Governor-General of Libya, His Excellency Grand Councilman Italo Balbo. Reason: Balbo led a mighty mass formation flight of Italian planes in 1933 to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition and it is logical to suppose that the Lindbergh publicity he thus won "made Mussolini jealous," had its sequel when Il Duce packed him off out of the world's limelight to rule Libya. Last month Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew...