Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whoever succeeds McNary in the minority leadership, Republican tactics henceforth will be different. No one on the scene can rival Charley's cloakroom finesse; his likeliest successors are men more apt to give open battle on the floor. Three men are in line. One is Acting Leader Wallace White of Maine, who will get the job if the law of inertia applies. Another is Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, first in line by seniority and prestige, who may refuse it in order to keep his individual freedom. Third choice, favored by the Party's Young Turks, is Ohio...
...well. Its rows packed with enthusiasts including Du-binsky's garment workers and Curran's seamen, the City Center bulged with sold-out houses. But by week's end Mayor LaGuardia's marked-down opera found itself in a situation familiar to its high-priced rival, the Met: it had lost substantially at the box office...
...Crisis. In both cases able minds have been replaced by less able. To Tojo the bitter pill of Truk was sugared by his triumph over his old rival Sugiyama. To Sugiyama and Nagano the bitter pill was sugared with appointment as "highest military advisers to His Majesty...
Some thought that there might be another spur to London's rapprochement with Algiers: a traditional, power-political desire to prepare a counterbloc in western Europe, just in case Russia establishes a rival block in the east (see p. 11). London dispatches reported that Britain and the U.S. will soon sign agreements providing for administration of liberated Norwegian, Netherlands and Belgian territories by their Governments in Exile...
...notable for his intense respect for the little citizen, for the sanity of the U.S. mass mind. Ray Clapper's guiding maxim: "Never overestimate the people's knowledge, nor underestimate their intelligence." His rival columnists, without dissent, praised his competence and balance. The U.S. had lost not only an outstanding journalist, but also a plainspeaking, commonsensible spokesman for the people...