Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican comment on the Cromwell candidacy, from Congressman Fred A. Hartley Jr. of New Jersey: "This should be encouraging news to the Democratic finance committee, but it should be equally pleasing to Senator Barbour [who will be Mr. Cromwell's rival in November...
Turkey. If the rival mobs began to shoot it out in the Southeast, a good deal of the gunplay would take place in Turkey's front yard, the Dardanelles. With Italy's fleet on the prowl, Turkey sent her 23,000-ton, model 1911 battle cruiser Yavuz (the onetime famed German raider Goeben) and other naval units into the Sea of Marmara lying between the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Russia began maneuvers in the Black Sea after having laid mines off her main port Odessa and the oil port Batum...
...Mormon delegates met for biennial conference at Independence, fumed over Vardis Fisher's book. Said goateed President Frederick Smith: "This book is of the same type that besmirched Washington and Lincoln." Everyone laughed when another grandson, Lawyer Israel A. Smith, reported that in the genealogical records of the rival Mormon branch he had found his grandfather listed with the women who had been "sealed to him in celestial marriage" in Salt Lake City. "Joseph Smith," said he, "met his death before Salt Lake City was founded. But it was a real thrill to pull grandmas out of a filing...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 led the list of voters with 34.3 per cent of the students with Thomas Dewey, Michigan '23, his nearest rival with 26.6 per cent. Cordell Hull, National Normal University '91 polled 7.3 per cent; Arthur H. Vandenburg garnered 6 per cent: and Robert A. Taft, Yale '10, collected 4.2 per cent...
...equal to, or bigger than, Hurok's. There was much furious measuring of type, and once Hurok had to go out, pastepot in hand, and stick the Colonel's name on some three-sheet posters from which it had been omitted. Today Colonel de Basil manages a rival troupe and earthy S. Hurok, who knows what he likes, is final arbiter of the Monte Carlo ballet programs...