Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exposés & Affidavits. The Oregonian (circ. 230,850) was braced for the shocked reaction its exposé caused among readers. What it did not expect was a violent counterattack from its rival daily, the Oregon Journal (circ. 181,489). Soundly beaten on the story and unable to lay hands on the tape-recorded evidence, the Journal sent a reporter along with D.A. Langley on a hoked-up raid on an Elkins aide who had some tapes in his possession. The tapes were turned over to the Journal reporter, who allowed the Teamster organizer to copy them, and were then...
...indictment last week of Schrunk and Langley on charges of accepting bribes from racketeers, every conspirator named by the Oregonian was facing criminal action. (Langley, who had filed libel suits for $2,000,000 against the Oregonian and several individuals who supported its story, quietly dropped them.) Still the rival Journal stuck to its guns. On Page One it ran an affidavit from Clifford ("Jimmy") Bennett, operator of an Elkins-backed after-hours drinking dive, in which Bennett denied his previous story that he had paid Schrunk $500 protection money in September 1955-the incident on which the indictment...
Fast-moving Montgomery Ward still has some laps to travel before catching its main rival, Sears, Roebuck & Co. Reported Sears last week: 1956 sales totaled $3,555,684,148, for a jump of 7.5% in the year, and earnings were $164,816,293. Significantly, noted Sears, "increased competition in our field" lowered after-tax net to 4.6% of sales...
Died. Edouard Herriot, 84, three times (1924, '26, '32) Premier of France, whose career stretched over half a century, paralleled the Third Republic; in Lyon. Elected mayor of Lyon at 33, a Senator at 40, witty, erudite, pipe-puffing Herriot became a Senate rival to the fiery Georges Clemenceau; with British Socialist and Visionary Ramsay MacDonald, introduced the "Geneva Protocol" into the League of Nations, a first international attempt to outlaw aggression; canceled (1932) the German reparations agreements and plunged France soon after into such deep financial troubles that despite his efforts France repudiated its U.S. debts...
...rival isn't round and bouncy...