Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's desk, and who expected his release this week. After so much pushing around, Price-Holder Porter wanted a long rest, and no thoughts of jobs in the immediate future-even if they included an offer of the Presidency of Broadcast Music, Inc., the rival to A.S.C.A.P...
Ways Sr. was not around in 1926 when Ways Jr., turned 21, fled from his philosophy major at Loyola College and his night law course at University of Maryland to the sanctuary of his father's old rival, the Baltimore Sun. By that process of osmosis known to newsmen as "learning the business," he had progressed, by the advent of World War II, from police & sundries reporter to editorial writer of foreign news and national affairs for the Philadelphia Record. In the process he had made himself a qualified political economist-a rarity among U.S. journalists...
...labor leader, Atlantic City was filled with memories. In the President Hotel, John Lewis and his followers had plotted their great rebellion in 1935 against the A.F.L. and laid the foundation of a rival C.I.O. In the tarnished ballroom of the Chelsea Hotel, John had given the carpenters' Bill Hutcheson a punch on the jaw (1935). In the same room, in 1940, John resigned the presidency of C.I.O. and Phil Murray mournfully became his successor. Murray had no reason now to feel any happier about...
...hundred twenty Crimson athletes who may never get to see the inside of the Varsity Club will nevertheless get the chance to add their licks to the "Beat Yale" theme this afternoon when six House gridiron forces engage their rival Colleges from New Haven on Soldiers Field, the first game starting at 2 o'clock...
...South was scheduled for this week, with appropriate Hollywood razzle-dazzle, in Atlanta, the only city Uncle Remus himself really knew. The movie's success in the South, which unabashedly dotes on the good old days, is already assured. The film critic of the Atlanta Journal (the rival Constitution's onetime editor: Joel Chandler Harris) went on a special junket to Hollywood for a preview. He has pronounced the picture fully as great-if not anywhere near so long-winded-as that other Atlanta-premiered movie, Gone With the Wind: "There can be no higher praise...