Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Wallace agreed that "some had been hurt" but contended that greater good had been achieved. By this time he was standing in the street, while 75 stood on the sidewalk. Then, with a criticism of Republicans in Congress, and a note of praise for Senator McNary, his Republican rival, Henry Wallace returned to his automobile and set out for New Ulm, Sleepy Eye, Olivia, Moose Lake, Crookston, Fergus Falls, Elbow Lake and other small towns in the farm belt...
Police shut him up. They didn't have to ask who he was. They knew: Vito Gurino, 33, ex-baker, top trigger man of the Brooklyn syndicate of small-time gunmen who, at bargain-basement prices (TIME, April 1), murdered underworld characters for rival gangs. They had been looking for him. Two of his bosses were in the death house at Sing Sing, two more were on trial, others awaiting trial for their part in the 83 murders chalked up against the syndicate by Irish William O'Dwyer, Brooklyn District Attorney...
Jefferson, a tall, thin, freckled, worried man, even proposed to his Cabinet a Constitutional amendment to cover the case. His Cabinet voted the idea down. In October the Senate convened. Jefferson presented the treaties covering the transaction for ratification, and the Senate gave consent. Though rival Federalists were glum, in Washington, "every pig, goose and duck, far and near," was rounded up for two days of feasting and cheers...
...Mayor James John Walker of New York City, blithe, debonair, and Tammany's greatest vote-getter, swamped his Republican rival by 500,000 votes. The rival was Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. In 1932 Governor Franklin Roosevelt held hearings on Mayor Walker's conduct of his office, during which Mayor Walker resigned. Fiorello LaGuardia, making much of Mayor Walker's misdoings, in due time became New York City's mayor...
...Paris-Seattle Star final rowed out into Elliott Bay. Japanese are barred (because they are too skillful). So are outboard motors. Contestants are permitted to troll (drag lure through the water) or spin (cast from anchored boat). In each boat is an "observer" supplied by a rival fisherman to prevent petty cheating...