Word: rival
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Democrats set up their own court and dismissed every case on the docket an hour before Republican Judge Louis C. Wool convened his court. Rival judges in Norwalk struck a rickety compromise-Republicans judged the even-numbered cases, Democrats the odd. Six habitual drunkards, up for sentencing in Waterbury, explained their presence: We were celebrating the appointment of the Democratic judges." Ten days," snapped Republican Judge Charles R. Summa...
Acción Democrática believes that the junta will be overthrown by violence-though it does not urge that course on its members. Undergrounders expect that the revolution will be started in the army, which has been divided by rival factions since the day it booted out Gallegos. At first the schism was confined to garrison commanders who refused to cooperate with the junta. Lately, word has gone around that the division exists within the junta itself...
Last week Newsman Cope was reaching an even broader audience: his first book, Front Porch Farmer (Turner E. Smith & Co.; $2.75) was Atlanta's No. 1 non-fiction bestseller, and four Southern state universities had approved it as an agricultural textbook. Even the rival Atlanta Journal gave Constitution Columnist Cope an ungrudging pat on the back: "An important book for the entire South. Channing Cope is a prophet...
...editor and publisher of McCall's, got a telephone call from Hyde Park. The caller, whom Wiese has never identified, cried: "Come quick! The lady's feelings are hurt." Wiese quickly decoded "lady" into Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and took the next train north, convinced that somehow the rival Ladies' Home Journal had underestimated the power of a woman...
...gentry who attempt the magazine's printed matter-freshmen, members of the various Harvard clubs across the country. Boston newspaper reporters, rival collegiate magazines, and the postal department-must have full confidence in the Lampoon's strangely bloated reputation as a humorous magazine. (A small but effective survey just concluded by this department has revealed that the majority of people who consider the lampoon to be funny have neither read it nor seen it. Few people questioned admitted to not having heard of it, however, though some were under the impression that it was the University's daily newspaper...