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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sportswriters chuckled at this brush-up between Millionaires Briggs & Bradley, but rival club owners were fit to be tied. "It certainly reeked of poor taste, particularly at this time of year," hissed one vexed bigwig. "Ballplayers find out soon enough what others are getting and use such figures as argument for more dough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cream Pitchers | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...Annual Ordinary General Meeting last week, they knew there were other reasons too: 1) an ill-timed ?5,000,000 expansion scheme of eight years ago, 2) a 25% yearly dividend on ?450,000 of William Whiteley Ltd. stock, guaranteed for 15 years when Selfridge took over the fading rival firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Selfridge Reorganized | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...neckties) that A. F. of L.'s President William Green asked the American Federation of Teachers to revoke Local 5-3 charter. When A. F. of T. rebuffed Mr. Green, Local $'s officers and 700 of its 2,200 members marched out of the Union formed a rival Teachers Guild. Local 5 thereupon cagily elected a non-Stalinist, tense, well-meaning Charles J. Hendley, as its president, in two years increased its' membership sixfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's in the Union? | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Cornell, defeated only by Dartmouth, still appears to be the Indians most formidable rival, with the possible exception of untried Princeton. However, with the intensive action of the campaign still ahead, the Big Green must still be rated as a favorite to score its fourth straight title victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGER QUINTET MEETS YALE IN EIL GAME AS EXAMS SLOW UP OTHER HOOPSTERS | 1/29/1941 | See Source »

...playing Citizen Kane, a corrupt newspaper publisher, in a way that reminded Cinecolumnist Parsons irresistibly of her boss-William Randolph Hearst. The seed of suspicion had been deftly implanted in the Parsons mind a week before. She had not been included among Hollywood's journalistic elite (her rival Hedda Hopper, Timesman Douglas Churchill, Look's Jim Crow) who saw the initial preview of R. K. O.'s & Orson Welles's Citizen Kane. Now, at her own insistence, she was having a special showing. With her she had brought her chauffeur and two lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Citizen Welles Raises Kane | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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