Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune was Chicago's decision at the polls to limit its McCormick-fostered daylight saving time to summer only (see p. 26). This return restored to the News the normal advantage of a Midwestern evening paper over its morning rival on Washington news and final New York stock quotations...
...Kelly-Nash machine put Chicago on Eastern Standard Time all year round. Biggest backer of the change was arch-Republican Colonel Robert R. McCormick who wanted to get an hour's more news every day for his morning Tribune, take away an hour's news from his rival, Colonel Frank Knox's afternoon News. This week Chicagoans were given an opportunity not of settling the question but making their preferences known by an advisory referendum on three questions 1) Shall Chicago have Eastern Time (daylight saving all year round)? 2) Shall Chicago have Central Time (no daylight...
Within the social sciences there has been some jockeying for position. The upshot of this is that Economics A has nosed out its traditional rival, History 1. Government 1 has lost considerable ground due to past lethargy, which promises to be overcome by current renovation. In the meantime Economics seems to have picked up more men who would otherwise be taking the Holcombe course than has History. The fact that these three remain unchallenged is one of great importance. When it is observed that only one science course, Biology D, made the grade at all, it can be realized that...
...King had personally authorized their Chief to break the news of Edward VIII's intentions. From London by telephone suddenly came to Hearst editors, with authority to front-page it at once, a story to rank with some of the achievements of Mr. Hearst's only real rival in U. S. publisher-reporting, Roy Wilson Howard. This dispatch, couched in a style almost unmistakably the "Chief's" own, reported England's biggest news since the death of George V as follows...
While Pennsylvania is the traditional Central rival, the two roads stood shoulder to shoulder on the question of the 2?-per-mile passenger fare, regarding B. & O.'s support of the rate reduction as nothing less than traitorous. New York Central's objection to B. & O.'s hookup with Keeshin was founded on sound competitive sentiments. It can provide B. & 0. with what amounts to an established store-door pickup-delivery system, a service New York Central is not ready to offer. Furthermore New York Central has a heavy stake in a service which provides shippers with...