Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, at Litchfield, with pneumonia; Governor Charles Ben Ross of Idaho, Democratic rival of William Edgar Borah for the U. S. Senate, at Boise with neuritis; Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, at Santa Barbara with a carbuncle. Snapped he into a radio microphone at his bedside: "The party of Lincoln ... is nothing more than a racketeering gang led by millionaire privilege seekers and tax evaders, with a following of inflammatory demagogs and Democratic renegades in the pay of the Liberty League...
...DESERVE SOME EASY MONEY," some 45,200 St. Louisans stuck through the contest at $1.20 each, racked their brains for a dozen weeks over the Globe-Democrat's "Famous Names." First trouble came when a Roman Catholic priest denounced the saucy drawings of Artist Arno. Soon the rival Star-Times, which once had an option on the contest itself, and Post-Dispatch began to hint that the contest was unfair. Finally two St. Louisans tied for first prize, won $6,000 each. Then Missouri's Attorney General cracked down, brought suit against the fat, frightened Globe-Democrat...
...until eleven weeks after its founding did WWJ share the channels of the air with a rival broadcasting station...
...wrestlers are vaguely divided into regional groups. Each group recognizes as world champion its own champion who, for box-office reasons, usually prefers not to wrestle rival champions. Currently, there are six claimants to the title besides Levin: Rudy Dusek, Danno O'Mahoney, Everett Marshall. Leo Daniel Boone Sav age, Ali Baba, Jack Sherry...
...largest: Columbia Broadcasting, 98 stations; National Broadcasting, 95 stations. -Latest of Radio's so-called "Crossley Reports " which attempt to determine the percentage of radio listeners attending a certain program during its time on the air, gives Major Bowes a rating of 27%. Nearest rival, Lux Radio Theatre, had 17.4% of listeners queried...