Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Combined Opposition. After that the program faces the opposition of protectionists who have, for the first time in years, combined in support of a single rival bill. Authored by Pennsylvania's Republican Richard Simpson, it is openly designed to gut reciprocal trade. The key battle will come on a motion to send the reciprocal-trade bill back to the Ways & Means Committee, with orders that it approve the Simpson substitute...
...week's end more and more shopkeepers began raising their shutters, and in the countryside rival tribesmen took up arms to help fight the rebel Druses. The government, growing bolder, made so many arrests that movie houses had to be commandeered for auxiliary jails. Some 12,000 Syrians were transported to the border and dumped into Syria. But the Chamoun government, still unable to assert authority in many places, had yet to round up any opposition leaders, and some observers began to say that the crisis might just peter out in victory for nobody, but at the cost...
...American flight to Port of Spain. Trinidad. By fortunate happenstance, a Radidphoto transmitter had been installed there only last month for Princess Margaret's visit. Griffin's pictures were moving out from New York by 2 a.m. the following day, a good nine hours ahead of rival United Press...
...retools for 1959 models. Counting heavily on a cleanup of the '58 models and the popularity of the new '59 cars, Ward's Automotive Reports hopefully predicted that "factory unemployment gloom will be quickly followed by a fourth-quarter burst of production prosperity that may rival...
...last week's field, John Patterson drew heavily on the crusading father-and-son background, even more heavily on his record as an attorney general who would enforce to the letter Alabama's harsh segregationist laws. He won 160,000 votes to 134,000 for his nearest rival, Circuit Judge George Wallace, who had promised to jail any FBI man found snooping around his jurisdiction to investigate denial of Negro voting rights. Patterson is strongly favored in his runoff with Wallace next June, but either way, Alabama can be sure of having just the sort of segregationist Governor...