Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialists. Believing that not "force" but consistent Pacifism must always and ultimately be the guiding principle of British Labor, Lord Ponsonby, the Labor Party's leader in the House of Lords, resigned last week. Its leader in the Commons, "Old George" Lansbury, again threatened to resign. The Young Labor rival Herbert Morrison, who is most anxious to succeed him, announced that he smelt a Geneva...
...secretly used for the interests of Imperialism," cried Mr. Morrison at Hackney, "then our Party must be free to make a new declaration superseding that of the Trades Union Congress. Labor can give no blank check of approval to this Government. We are not interested in the struggles of rival imperialisms [British & Italian], and we are not going to be drawn into them...
...horrifies Mrs. Murfree by his frowzy appearance, dances an authentic jig at a political rally, conducts a senile romance with a female ward-leader named Oulihan (Maureen Delany) and finally wins the election for his son by appearing on a rostrum to denounce Murfree's rival for attempted kidnapping...
Brewers were most interested last week in two rival cans which raced each other into the market. Taproom champions of the thesis that beer tastes better from kegs than from bottles rarely consider how it would taste from cans. But canmakers have long toyed with the idea. Cans would stack more easily, weigh less, could be thrown away after using. The problem was to devise a lining. By last week American Can and Continental Can both thought they had the solution...
When, on the same day in 1902, the two railroads launched these rival limiteds, the schedule was a breathtaking 20 hours. Lately, however, airplane and streamline rivalry forced a succession of cuts-first to 18, then to 17¾, finally, last April, to 17 hours flat. The two trains can go faster, but railway officials know that density of population, roadbeds, grade-crossings make a 15-hr. schedule too dangerous to be warranted...