Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia has broken relations with the Polish Government in Exile, Russia gives friendly facilities to a rival Union of Polish Patriots headquartered in Moscow. Britain and the U.S. continue relations with the Polish Exile Government in London...
...Conrad Veidt Above Suspicion is also a milestone: his last picture for anybody. He died last spring (TIME, April 12), age 50, of a heart attack, on a Hollywood golf course. Often regarded as Eric von Stroheim's most formidable rival as a fondler of monocles, German-born Veidt first came to fame in Robert Wiene's bizarre fantasy, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Other weirdies, like The Hands of Mr. Orlac, followed. Women fainted, men screamed, children chortled when they were shown. By 1926, when Veidt went to Hollywood, audiences had got hold of themselves pretty well...
...Reluctant Candidate. In the North Mississippi Herald, Mark Woods, candidate for the state legislature, advertised that he was obliged to vote for his rival because "the law of God operates during a political campaign . . . and it is my judgment that John Hodnett possesses qualifications . . . superior to mine." He added: "However, I cannot dictate the conscience of the county. The county must be free to choose. . . . Therefore I shall not withdraw my candidacy...
...Other divisions, other commanders may have earned equal repute. But in public fame the 1st Infantry Division has only one U.S. rival: the 1st Marine Division under Lieut. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, conqueror of Guadalcanal (TIME, Nov. 2), who last week became the commander of the First Marine Amphibious Corps...
...Jack & Heintz, Inc. is a man who has achieved the almost inconceivable. He has made 7,500 factory hands ("associates") work twelve hours a day seven days a week-and like it. Just why they like it, why Bill Jack is so popular with his "associates," so unpopular with rival contractors, is the subject of this short but impressive documentary of a day in the Jack & Heintz factory (automatic pilots and airplane starters...