Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nights later Willkie addressed Syracuse Republicans, this time made a good showing. In urging voters to elect Republican Joe R. Hanley (TIME, Oct. 11) as Lieutenant Governor, Willkie was gesturing helpfully toward his chief Presidential rival, Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Said Willkie: "Governor Dewey has given . . . sound, clean and able administration. . . . Let us elect a Lieutenant Governor who will work with him. . . ." Afterwards, Dewey wired: "It was great. Many thanks." Wired Willkie: "My Dear Tom: . . . Thanks for your gracious wire . . . Kindest regards...
...eyeteeth while listening to political gossip as a clerk in a country store. One of Cross's earliest recollections is of overhearing a confidential conversation between Republican and Democratic town committee chairmen back in the vil lage of Gurleyville, in northeastern Connecticut. The leaders of the rival parties had just finished buying 54 votes at $5 a head, and each leader had kept $150 of the cash sent from Hartford headquarters as a "legitimate expense" of getting out the voters...
Postwar air transport was also up for action and argument. Winston Churchill's new Lord Privy Seal, restless, tireless, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, this week conducted an informal Empire Air Conference, to lay plans for later, more difficult talks with the U.S. and other rival nations...
...Philharmonic had a new concertmaster, a new solo viola, a new first oboe and bassoon, two new first horns, a new trombone, a new tuba. The orchestra played with a precision and energy that led many to hope that it might soon resume its historic place as a real rival of the Boston and Philadelphia orchestras...
...group of U.S. educators was likely to swing the most weight with the State Department where international questions were concerned. This was the liberal group centering in Stanford University, which dominated last month's international education conference at Harpers Ferry, W. Va. (TIME, Oct. 11) as against a rival committee led by New York University educators...