Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flanked by their advisers, the rival generals maneuvered from headquarters two miles apart. G. M.'s Knudsen in the big General Motors Building on Grand Boulevard West, U. A. W.'s Martin in the Hofmann Building on downtown Woodward Avenue. Their battlefield was the whole U. S. As the week began. 14 G. M. plants had been closed or crippled by U. A. W. "sitdown" strikes, throwing 40,600 employes out of work. When the week ended, 28 plants and 93,000 out of a total 135,000 production employes were idle...
...loudspeaker at union headquarters across the street. As shifts were changing someone smashed the amplifier, caused a general scuffle. Heads were banged and two U. A. W. men landed in jail. That night 200 unionists demonstrated in front of the lockup, were routed by tear gas. Again in Flint rival groups clashed in front of a Fisher Body plant. City police, called after strikers had locked up three private company policemen in the plant, used fire hose and tear gas to scatter a crowd outside. In the all-night battle which followed, 19 persons were injured. Governor Murphy moved into...
Recalled from a playboy career in Europe by his brother who heads the family lumber company, Steve Russett (George Brent) lands a plane on a lake in timber that belongs to their arch rival, Jo Barton. When Jo Barton (Beverly Roberts) turns out to be a spitfire blonde, Steve stays on as a lumberjack, works up to foreman before Jo finds out who he is. By the time she fires him as a spy, they are in love. This complicates his brother's scheme to force Jo to sell him her land by engineering a jam of Barton logs...
This mountain in western Massachusetts has among its trails the well known Thunderbolt run, one of the fastest racing trails and a rival of the Ravine trail and Hell's Highway. A network of seven trails covers the mountain and skiing lasts into March on the northerly slopes...
...Europe take care of itself. As a model wife and mother, she had her hands full at home. Henri had never made any secret of his infatuation for Diane de Poitiers, who was old enough to be his nurse, and Catherine even had to share her children with her rival. Only very occasionally did Catherine let her feelings come to the surface. Once Diane found her reading, asked what the book was. Said Catherine: "I am reading the chronicles of France, and I find that from time to time, at every period, the affairs of Kings have been governed...