Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minnesota happens to have a law, not very often used, that if one candidate abuses his rival and lies about him to the electorate, he can be denied his nomination even if successful in the primaries. Volstead went to court. At the trial Laura testified that her father was "a good Christian man, a good father." The court disqualified Kvale. The local Republican Committee then renominated Volstead and he was reelected...
That is what Paul ("Astoria Assassin") Berlenbach, world's light heavyweight champion, did last week. The champion got on the scales and he weighed 174 1/2 lb. Then his rival got on and the weight was shoved way out on the bar to 190. Of course with such a difference in weight, the champion was not risking his title. But he freely and voluntarily entered the ring at Madison Square Garden with the 190-pounder, Johnny Risko, in consideration of a part of the $62,000 of gate receipts collected from Theodore Roosevelt, Red Grange, Charley Hoff...
Harvard has the prestige and the power to attract almost any coach she should desire. The coaching position of our Crimson rival is a position that many more famous men than Horween might welcome. The fact is, however, that one of her own sons has been picked for the position...
...Name Congressman Sosnowski's greatest rival for "best dressed man in the House...
...Roosevelt to sink $18,000 there. The Western Union fought them, blocked them from going into hotels and railroad stations, where quick communication has always been wanted, profitable. (This early hostility has long given way to present comity.) The telegraph company got Thomas A. Edison to work out a rival means of telephoning. The two Manhattan men were glad to sell out to the parent Bell company. Young Theodore N. Vail came in as General Manager, got supporting money from his friends, fought to vast success...