Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hugo Stinnes, crafty, potent, indurate,-a short while "All-Highest" of Germany-was planned a mausoleum to rival Les Invalides. Like the upstart Napoleon, he should lie in a marble crypt deep under a marble dome. In place of WAGRAM, JENA, AUSTERLITZ, PYRENEES, etc., there should be carved COAL, IRON, RAILROADS, NEWSPAPERS, etc. And all should be suffused by pale blue, pale yellow lights...
...only Tongs fighting, are the Hip Sings, the On Leongs. Many others exist;?the Hong Tuck Tong, made up of cigar makers; the Gum Longs, of fishermen on the Sacremento river; the Gin Sin Sear, founded by Little Pete, famed Chinese badman; the Bo Sin Sear, its rival; the Suey Sings, the Juke Lums, Om Yicks, Bing Kongs. The war of 1905 brought in twelve tongs on one side, nine on the other. Remembering this, police commissioners in all cities stationed double patrols, last week, in their Chinatowns...
...rest of the diplomatic corps, officially oblivious to M. Karakhan, reported acceptances of their various governments of China's invi- tation, (TIME, July 20) to a Customs Conference, awaited the ar- rival of delegates...
Trusting Providence to let fall upon him the mantle of Fundamentalist leadership which the late W. J. Bryan wore without rival, John Roach Straton, loud Manhattan pastor, has toured from pulpit to pulpit. The sermon which has packed churches miles from Broadway, reaches its climax in a rhapsodic disruption of the modern dance. The climax, as delivered in Louisville, northern capital of territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, follows verbatim...
Despite the vigorous if disorganized efforts of these rival factions to defeat him, the reelection of Weizmann seems highly probable...