Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bright-eyed Tunesmith Grever never expected her Spanish-style Ti-Pi-Tin to rival the Spanish-style waltz Ramona in popularity. She had long been known as a composer of some 450 Spanish ditties and more or less serious concert songs, had reached grandmotherhood without seeing any of them create a furor. But last week, as Ti-Pi-Tin reached its fourth consecutive week as Tin Pan Alley's top seller, Grandmother Grever began to challenge Tunesmith Wayne's record...
...Empire planes do not fly at night, but as beacons are installed and airports equipped for night flight, Imperial hopes to better its present slow time (average, 60 m.p.h.) between England and Australia, bring it closer to the 90 m.p.h. over-all time of its 50,695-mile route rival. Pan American Airways...
...happy ending with marriage or its promise, and three others salute the beginnings of romance in their last sentences. The favorite story of Post writers is that of an inconspicuous worthy who is pushed around at first, finally comes out on top, usually triumphing over some flashier rival in the process. They tell it expertly, with no waste motions, sometimes with humor, frequently with a good deal of technical information thrown in-about steel mills, prize fights, greyhound racing, navigation. Except for Thomas Wolfe's story of racial conflict, The Child by Tiger, and Walter Edmonds' tale...
Expected today is an official decision by the State Labor Relations Board ordering either an investigation, a poll of workers, or both, according to informed circles. The action follows nearly three weeks of informal deliberation between the University, the rival labor unions and the state...
...flailing President Roosevelt for not taking a more adamant stand on the necessity of a wage-hour bill and charging many Federal agencies are anti-labor. Later he revealed that the Committee of Industrial Organization will hold its first Constitutional Convention early next fall to set up a permanent rival organization to the American Federation of Labor...