Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ezekiel proposal, published in book form with the title $2,500 a Year* gave little comfort to Townsendites. As a theorist Dr. Ezekiel can think circles around Dr. Townsend, and he devoted but three pages to a systematic demolition of his rival's ideology. On sounder economic ground he reared his own plans. He proposed no guaranteed bounty for idle pensioners but a better ordered economic society in which even the poorest could earn a living some 60% better than the average U. S. citizen...
...native State by announcing that he was going to run in Ohio primaries to prevent the naming of a favorite son. who would be used to deliver Ohio's convention vote to a boss-picked, Old-Guard candidate. Last week Ohio Republicans scurried about to find a rival candidate to prevent the Ohio delegation from going to the Idahoan by default. Few avowed candidates wanted to risk a possible defeat in Ohio at the Senator's hands...
...venture was scarcely expected to rival the success of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe which, before its current tour is over, may well gross $1,000,000 (TIME, Oct. 21). But the fact that Martha Graham was courageous and confident enough to want to face audiences of plain people, unbiased by the adoring intellectuals who hail her as a priestess, gave a fresh importance to the dance she represents...
...From 900 to 640 B. C." Professor Blake continued, "Van was the capital of a great kingdom which was the only successful rival of the monarchs of Assyria when that state was at the height of its power. Although the archaeological remains have long been generaly known, they have not been thoroughly studied...
Seldom does a U. S. President invite a serious political rival to the White House. Nevertheless, three days after Candidate Borah's announcement, Franklin Roosevelt had the Senator in to share his lunch on the Presidential desk. On arrival, Mr. Borah gladly posed for photographers with his hand upon the White House door knob. On departure, he was asked whether he had discussed the campaign with the President...