Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubtful loyalty; and General Almazán has gallantly availed himself of this tradition. From Cárdenas he got lucrative concessions to build railroads, hotels, villages, roads (among them sections of the great Pan American Highway). He opened up slack Acapulco as a tourist resort. While his rival Camacho was suppressing Cedillo, Almazán took a handsome cut of the bandit's swag. Now a very rich man who lives in a flashy, gringo-haunted eyrie high above Monterrey, Almazán is tall, heavy but trim from swimming and riding. With his hazel eyes, ruddy cheeks...
Fair-haired Brooke is an Alabamian, moves with the speed of Stepin Fetchit. To rival golfers last week he became known as the "Virginia Creeper." But, creeping or no, Virginia's Brooke, during six days of rain, swamped one adversary after another. After Burke, went Princeton's Arnold Zimmerman, Mississippi's Gary Middlecoff, Holy Cross's Eddie Foy.* In the 36-hole final, Brooke faced the toughest foe of all: bespectacled Harry Hoyt Haverstick of Swarthmore...
...neither looks (he is soft-collared, mussy) nor talks (he is articulate) like a businessman, and before Philadelphia, businessmen were far from unanimous about him. Within his own utility industry (which has never been able to agree on a spokesman), many a big holding-company executive either backed a rival candidate at the convention or stood aloof. What put him over was the younger, more or less progressive, executive-suburban group in all industries ($4,000 and an Oldsmobile up) who, with the enthusiastic help of their wives, were not too politically cynical to get out and fight for their...
Maneuvering to up their quotas in the current session, the Mountain beet lobby and its friendly rival, the Cuban cane lobby, have sought to limit imports from U. S.-owned sugar countries. This "unholy alliance" drew Humanitarian Roosevelt's wrath-as it would also draw the wrath of Libertarian Wendell Willkie. President Roosevelt reminded Congress that Hawaiians. Puerto Ricans and Virgin Islanders "are American citizens . . . with local governments that lack the protection of statehood," i.e. Senators...
Like all Metro specials, Susan and God is trademarked by expert direction (George Cukor), lavish mountings, best camera work and lighting in the business, and gowns by Adrian. Since Hollywood's only rival as the world's fashion centre was Paris, since Hollywood's No. 1 stylist is Adrian, and since broad-shouldered, boy-hipped Joan Crawford is one of Adrian's favorite models, Susan and God is no mean fashion event. Feminine movie goers and scouts who remembered such nationwide Adrian clicks as the puffed sleeves Crawford wore in Letty Lynton, Garbo's Eugenie...