Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare treat for the United States to have no political turnover in federal jobs every four years. Prominent educators in this country have often publicly lamented the need for a comprehensive civil service, similar to that of England. This bill, if passed, will set up an institution that will rival the traditional British "Cursus Honorum", Eton and Oxford, since it will create a class of public servants, as independent and as distinct as our present Army and Navy...
...Landon has been trying to avoid since last December when William Randolph Hearst in his private car rode uninvited into Topeka and publicly put his hand upon the Landon shoulder. Not to run would be equally dangerous for Governor Landon. It threatened to drive Publisher Hearst to support a rival candidate. Statesmanlike "Alf" Landon last week solved the problem by doing precisely nothing...
Governor Landon, however, was harder to catch. Kansas selects its delegates by convention, has already instructed them for Landon. Into Nebraska, where Landon has strength, Borah plunged, hoping his rival would follow. The Kansas candidate stayed away. Fortnight ago, however, when a slate of Landon delegates was picked for California's primary, Borah petitions were placed in circulation within 24 hours...
Borah v. All. Hoover, Landon, Knox take as their issue the New Deal. Their rival takes as his issue Borah-against-the-field. By last week he was entered in Illinois, Nebraska (April 14), Pennsylvania (April 28), Ohio. Delegates were running for him locally in New York and Wisconsin. He was expected to enter in Maryland (May 4), California (May 5), Oregon...
Significance. Senator Borah may not succeed in testing the strength of his rival candidates. But one test he has made certain. The primaries he has entered will test to the full the popular strength of William Edgar Borah and his brand of liberalism. If he cannot make a handsome showing in such states as Illinois and Ohio, even his friends admit that he may as well start for Idaho to begin his Senatorial campaigning for certain reelection...