Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parish stuck with him, and more came into his fold. Big battalions were needed to finish him. Enter the Ku Klux Klan. First of all, the Klan presented to the disgruntled section of Heaton's parish a completely equipped meeting room which they were to use until a rival Episcopal Church could be built. Big men in the Klan-bossed state were lined up in the little parish fight. The Bishop, the Searchlight, the Klan -it seemed that Heaton could hold out no longer when down rushed The Churchman to be his first ally. Its investigation of this curious alignment...
Several important elements in the theatrical world have already announced that they will not boost their seat prices sky-high in order to pluck the political lamb come to the slaughter. The newly-formed Managers' Protective Association, formed by Lee Shubert as a rival to the old Producing Managers' Association, has made known that seats to 75% of the current attractions, controlled by them, will not be sold for a small ransom...
...Florida a quietus was apparently put upon the hopes of Senator Underwood when Mr. McAdoo carried the state primary. In every southern state, except Alabama, McAdoo has vanquished his rival. What hope was left for the Alabaman...
...that George Arliss looks almost startlingly like John D. Rockefeller in action, manipulating millions. It i§ therefore most appropriately a picture in which valuable stocks and bonds are bandied about like So many pieces of chewing gum. Arliss embodies a millionaire who takes a lowly clerical job in a rival company's office to uncover a conspiracy, and incidentally reforms his shiftless son and saves him for the daughter of the rival house triumphantly to marry. There is novelty in the situation when this girl adopts a precocious brat and hef nervous brother, to square accounts, adapts Arliss...
Undoubtedly it is true that Sears, Roebuck's business has not been making anything like as good a showing of late as its rival in the mail-order business, Montgomery Ward & Co., and this fact is pointed out as proof of the Ku Klux Klan boycott story. Three years ago, Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s business was almost three times as great in volume as Montgomery Ward...