Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Holcombe will become best known to 1941 through his Government 1, a rival of History 1. Professor Langer's History 32, Europe in the Nineteenth Century, is not regularly open to Freshmen...
...friend and political ally, Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Beyond them stood a delegation of State police, sent by Rhode Island's Democratic Governor Robert E. Quinn to arrest Walter O'Hara on charges of criminal libel and blasphemy For two hours the rival police squadrons glared at each other in stubborn deadlock. Then Mr. O'Hara calmly walked out, dismissed his guard, received the warrant, and walked into another court episode in what by last week had become the bitterest sporting and political war in hard-boiled "Little Rhody's" history...
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Relentlessly backing any rival to Newark as long as it was situated in New York State he battled valiantly to have Brooklyn's remote Floyd Bennett Field made the city's official air terminal, even sponsored in 1933 a scheme for a metropolitan airport on Governor's Island, which would have nestled under the city's towering skyline and been suicidal to passengers and pilots. A year later he leased the land for what was to become a more practical project: to enlarge North Beach Airport on Flushing Bay, Queens...
...American Federation of Labor which this week formally expelled the CIOish Guild, served tart notice that the A. F. of L. will proceed under full steam to organize a rival editorial union...
...Santa Cruz, Calif, hills, George Spray called a convention of nudists at his Elysium Foundation. Three hundred and ninety appeared. Rival Nudist James F. Curl, who had called his convention for two weeks later, belittled Nudist Spray's convention, saying that some of the delegates had been seen wearing pants. Sneered he, "A nudist wearing pants is no nudist at all. He should be shaken from orthodox ranks...