Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis newsmen agreed that the Star-Times would not soon see Taylor's like again. He had built the Star-Times from the anemic 30,000 circulation of the old Star to its present 167,400, made it a lusty rival of the powerful Post-Dispatch, and in doing so had become a newspaper legend. Managing editor since 1914, he made his reputation in the early '20s, when he exposed the notorious Hogan gang, the Egan Rats, the bloody Italian gang called the Green Ones...
When Editor Taylor's retirement was announced, his bitter rival, Editor Ben Reese of the Post-Dispatch, was the first to telephone his congratulations on a magnificent record. He concluded: "I can't say that I'm sorry to see you quit, however. So far as the Post-Dispatch is concerned you've been Public Enemy...
...industry National Association of Broadcasters met last week in its 19th annual convention at St. Louis' Jefferson Hotel. And before the week was out radio was decisively split into two rival segments -big NBC and CBS opposed by Mutual Broadcasting System. Mutual had endorsed the Federal Communications Commission's sweeping antimonopoly decrees (TIME, May 12) and cracked the solid network front by signing a sudden armistice with ASCAP...
...Jones friend and a Jones man, Schram was fast becoming also a Jones rival. At first, like other Jones men, he remained anonymous. He never held his own press conference, never sent out his own press releases. Even after the President gave him the RFC chairmanship (which Jesse wanted to keep in his own collection of titles), Jones was still his boss. Schram's thwarted feeling probably mounted during the Bolivian tin negotiations, which Jesse handled in such a way that Bolivian tin is still not being commercially smelted...
...Ellot boat jumped into the lead in the first ten strokes in the first heat and steadily pulled away to win by three lengths, leaving Kirkland and Adams to fight it out for second place. First leading, then trailing its rival all the way down the course, Kirkland finally turned on the necessary power to gain second place and another crack at the winners by a deck length margin over the Gold Coasters...