Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manner in which counsel have presented their respective side of the argument. The judges are to consider only the structure of the briefs, the treatment of authorities, the skill shown in answering questions asked by the court, and the mastery of the technique of oral advocacy displayed by rival counsel, in arriving at their conclusion. Mr. Reed would not be embarrassed at having to make a decision of this nature and in no way would his chances of confirmation be jeopardized...
...week-end show, became such a success that it is now playing nightly to a packed house. Its amateur cast was recruited entirely from members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, a potent part of C. I. 0. Actors' Equity is a member of the rival A. F. of L. Last week A. F. of L.'s Equity claimed Pins and Needles' C. I. 0. amateurs as full-fledged, money-making actors, will bill them for dues ($6 to $18 annually). To keep their C. I. 0. standing, members of the cast must also continue...
...facts is a puzzling figure. Not a severe critic, the author points out that in comparison with feudal lords and warriors, businessmen have been humane. They have robbed widows & orphans and sold rotten ships to their governments from the Punic to the Civil War, but they have not burned rival salesmen at the stake. A maniac might get to be a monarch, she says, but he could never run a factory. The gist of her argument is that businessmen's great failure has been their inability to develop a goal that would dignify their ceaseless struggles. Men of calculation...
...then making fun of everybody and everything to Metternich. Because she did so with a mixture of malice, snobbishness, impatience, heartlessness and occasional humdrum housewifely humor, her private letters make a lively book, packed with characterizations that, a novelist could envy. Thus she describes the conversation of her diplomatic rival, the clumsy, ill-favored wife of the Austrian Ambassador: "Do you know the kind of woman who always wants to be the centre of social interest? She is afraid of mice, she loves cats, she tumbles down, she burns herself, she upsets her tea on her dress-all this happened...
...powers of its executive committee, the editorial went on to say that the ''amazing thing" was that the "logical and workable solution" of the remaining difficulties was "completely tossed out of the window." This proposal was to set up joint subcommittees to settle the jurisdictional claims of rival C. I. O. & A. F. of L. unions, subsequently allowing the original C. I. 0. unions to return to A. F. of L. as a group. "Such an approach, it seems to us. could not have been stigmatized by any right thinking person as 'treason' or 'desertion...