Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affiliates. One of the eight cofounders, David Dubinsky, thought C. I. O., the Congress, would re duce the chances of reunion with A. F. of L., therefore refused to enter the Congress with his International Ladies Garment Workers (TIME, Nov. 21). Many another believed the existence of a "permanent" rival would chasten A. F. of L.'s more pugnacious leaders and make the Federation "see light." Some of the younger Leftist militants (chiefly Longshoreman Harry Bridges, Sailor Joe Curran) wanted Leader Lewis to go beyond his stand for Peace with Honor, appeal directly to A. F. of L. rank...
...organization. In return, said the indictment. Commissioner Harnett had let Parmelee put up its own $250,000 bonding fund to save paying premiums to a bonding company, and then allowed Parmelee to "borrow" half its money back for operating expenses, while denying these special but not illegal privileges to rival companies. Arrested, fingerprinted, released on $5,000 bail, Commissioner Harnett denied all charges before resigning his post to save his Democratic superiors "embarrassment...
Publisher-Groceryman McDonald blamed the Commission's action on his old foe-shrewd, ponderous, Publisher-Editor George Fort Milton of the rival News, who is an old and valued friend of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. "Publisher Milton," he snapped, "has long swaggered over the country as the lord of the Tennessee Valley. . . . The Free Press will continue to compete with his ... newspaper with every honest means...
Apparently intended chiefly as Actor Powell's parole from musical pictures, Hard to Get contains only two songs, for elaborate orchestration substitutes a use of acrophobia unsurpassed since Harold Lloyd's Safety Last. Good sequence: Arthur Housman, ablest rival to Robert Benchley in the cinematic portrayal of amiable intoxication, trying to stand up in a crowded subway...
Spouting such claims in a rival blare of oratory is not the only string to the chains' bow. A. & P. pays an average of $30 a week to managers and clerks, compared to the Department of Labor's figure of $22 for all retail stores. In their Public Statement in September the Brothers Hartford declared that passage of the Patman bill would put 1,000,000 men out of work. Meanwhile, with little fanfare, A. & P. agreed to place all its outside printing contracts in union shops. Promptly the A. F. of L. announced that it was against...