Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine industrial unions joined with his United Mine Workers in the Committee for Industrial Organization were summoned to appear before the A. F. of L. Executive Council this week on charges, punishable by suspension of their A. F. of L. charters, of attempting to set up a rival labor organization. Far from knuckling under, Committee for Industrial Organization leaders welcomed into their fellowship the stripling United Rubber Workers and United Auto Workers unions, announced that organizational drives in the rubber, automobile and textile indus tries would be pushed simultaneously with the steel campaign. As individuals they proclaimed their refusal...
...Landon himself once made significant news when for the first time in the 1936 campaign he played the politician's trick of picking up a rival's catch phrase, giving it an ironic twist. Planning to stop at a Greeley, Colo. rodeo on his way back to Topeka for a special session of Kansas' Legislature this week, the Republican nominee was told that he would be driven around Greeley in a landau once owned by Mrs. Horace ("Baby Doe") Tabor. "A landau," smiled he, "just a horse & buggy for a horse & buggy candidate...
...year, the British Minister to the Kingdom of the Hellenes, dignified Sir Sydney Waterlow, whose rich relatives make stationery for King Edward VIII and British Government departments, was announced to have called upon Greek War Minister General John Metaxas and sternly inquired how things were getting on-particularly the rival British and German bids to build for Greece four destroyers. Last week General Metaxas, who has since become Premier of Greece, threw $13,500,000 of armament orders to Germany...
Chief ministerial antagonist of Dr. Kagawa was Dr. J. Frank Norris, blatant Baptist who called him a Communist, held rival meetings when the gentle Japanese was in Rochester last April, tried to get the Southern Baptist Convention to scratch him as a guest speaker last month (TIME, June i). Because Dr. Kagawa has sponsored seven kinds of successful cooperative movements in Japan and because he expounded them wherever he found listeners in the U. S., some businessmen professed to be alarmed. Warned Tide, advertising monthly: "What Dr. Kagawa and his cohorts mean to advertising in the long view is more...
...father's mansion, following an organ grinder to his basement flat, making friends with the vaudeville actors who live upstairs, joining their act which turns out to be a smash hit on the radio hour of the crotchety soap manufacturer who is her father's business rival. Shirley is absent from the screen in only six sequences, foots neatly through three dance numbers, sings You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby and But Definitely, which she pronounces incorrectly. Best shot: the Temple sneeze...