Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This situation was not to Franklin Roosevelt's political advantage. As long as affairs abroad crowded the campaign and Wendell Willkie off the front page, he had had the spotlight to himself. The reversal of news values gave Franklin Roosevelt the option of sharing the spotlight with his rival or of losing it entirely...
Like many press-association dispatches, Author Gramling's book is clear, accurate, but not brilliant. He is apt to sacrifice speed of narrative for the sake of coverage. He is polite to rival agencies, balances Roy Howard's famed false flash on the Armistice that ended World War I by telling of AP's false report of the Hauptmann trial verdict...
...stamp the most upstage of all U. S. trade names. In the panic of 1837, 25-year-old Charles Lewis Tiffany opened his store in downtown Manhattan, sold $4.98 worth of goods in the first three days. A dozen years later, the firm (then Tiffany, Young & Ellis) startled rival jewelers by purchasing $100,000 worth of royal Hungarian diamonds, began gathering éclat. Still later it bought the 128½-carat canary Tiffany diamond. Big as a man's fist, priceless, the stone is exhibited on state occasions, like the New York World's Fair...
...time was the $155,000,000 New York World's Fair. On its last day, a record mob of 538,000 jammed the 1,216½ acres to pay last-minute respects. Despite more publicity, more exhibits and better backing, it failed to match the record of its rival. Over 19,000,000 paying customers clicked through the shiny turnstiles this year, one-quarter less than in 1939, less than half original astronomic hopes. Fair Chairman Harvey Dow Gibson estimated that his 1940 gross was $10,450,000, his operating profit $5,020,000. When the final figures have...
Slapstick he provided liberally-Chaplin the soldier of World War I firing an anti-aircraft gun in all heavenly and earthly directions; Chaplin the dictator who takes a huge mouthful of English mustard; Jack Oakie, the rival dictator, mugging and talking tough...