Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news at week's end that United Mine Workers had signed contracts with 22 of the Harlan County, Ky. coal operators many of whom had been scheduled to stand trial for violating the Wagner Act. Mr. Green, who has been trying to sign up the operators with his rival Progressive Miners of America, charged that the quid pro quo was a "brazen and unlawful" deal arranged by Mr. Lewis under which NLRB would withdraw its charges against the operators, the Department of Justice would quash its criminal indictments. This was promptly denied by U. M. W., NLRB...
Three days later, Captain Eyston tried again, succeeded in breaking his old record officially with an average speed of 345.49 m.p.h. First to congratulate him was his rival, Fur Broker John Cobb, another 200-lb. Briton, who was on the sidelines last week-waiting for his inning. John Cobb's car has a detachable aluminum body that weighs only 500 lb., can be dented by a man's fist and is placed over the driver like the cover of a roasting pan. Cooped in his pan, Driver Cobb hopes to go 400 m.p.h...
...Festival (classic music; attendance, 85,000) in Soldier Field on the lakefront. This week it sponsored an All-Star football game on the Field. Calculating that it would be too expensive to dismantle a loudspeaker system on the Field between the two events, the Tribune agreed to let a rival, the tabloid Daily Times, use the equipment last week for a free entertainment of its own-a "Swing Jam Session" of five "name" bands from Chicago nightspots, and, according to plans, of 50 amateur swing groups. This gesture, the Tribune claimed, proved somewhat costly...
This meeting was the final flash of a highly electric U. A. W. week. When President Martin heard it had been called, he promptly called two rival meetings of his own, one the same day in Detroit for the heads of U. A. W.'s Michigan locals, another next day in Cleveland for Ohio locals-in order to make union men choose which side they would meet with. But having announced his intention to keep his Detroit meeting going until midnight if necessary to put deserters on the spot, he adjourned it early, mournfully watched a line of cars...
Stanford and Hopkins built huge houses on San Francisco's Nob Hill; Crocker spent $1,250,000 to rival them with a gaudy, towering architectural monstrosity. An undertaker who owned a small house in the same block refused to sell it; Crocker built a spite fence 40 feet high, completely enclosing his neighbor's home. Dennis Kearney led a mob to tea down the fence and hang Crocker from the flagpole atop his 76-foot tower, but the mob decided to burn Chinese laundries and beat up laundrymen instead...