Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engaged. In Tampa, Fla. next week meets the American Federation of Labor to decide, by ratifying or rejecting the Executive Council's suspension of John Lewis' United Mine Workers and its C. I. 0. allies (TIME, Aug. 17), whether organized Labor shall be fatefully split into two rival factions. Prime movers for peace have been two C. I. O. leaders David Dubinsky of International Ladies' Garment Workers and Max Zaritsky of United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers. At their instance, the A. F. of L. Executive Council last month appointed a committee of three to meet with...
...time Ballard withdrew from the Association. In the same era he plunged into the circus business. He bought Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus which was about to go on the rocks, soon picked up other circuses - Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Golmar Bros., Al Barnes. He became Ringling Brothers' biggest rival. Before Depression hit he sold his circuses to the Ringlings, was rated 30 times a millionaire...
...Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, to Delray. Fla. for deep-sea fishing. New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, to Williamstown, Mass, to watch his son Peter and the Williams freshman football team lose 12-to-0 to the Wesleyan freshmen. Governor Lehman's defeated rival, William Francis Bleakley, back to his law practice at Yonkers, N. Y. Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley, to Ireland. National Republican Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, to Manhattan...
Picasso. While the appearance of a full-size study for Henri Matisse's greatest mural made headlines last week (see above), his greatest rival in the field of modern art, Pablo Picasso, was honored by three shows at once. When both of them were young rebels in Paris, it was Painter Matisse who coined the name "Cubist" for the angular painting of his rival. At the Museum of Living Art, pretentious name for the important collection of modern painting that public-spirited Albert Eugene Gallatin has presented to New York University, there appeared The Three Musicians,* a semi-abstract...
...Promoter Andrews, who had had permission to sell the Dry Shaver at the Fair along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter, claimed Midwestern distribution rights. Colonel Schick denied the claim. Irate Promoter Andrews proceeded to work out and manufacture in Stamford, Conn., not far from the Schick plant, a rival electric razor called the Packard Lektro-Shaver. Colonel Schick sued Dictograph for infringement of patent. Mr. Andrews, who owns 20 shares of Schick stock, replied by bringing suit for mismanagement against the Colonel, who owns all the rest of Schick's 5,620 shares...