Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...show that he harbored no hard feelings, the victorious President-elect, General Rafael Trujillo, offered his incarcerated rival the office of Secretary of the Treasury. Haughtily the prisoner refused. "I will not accept the Treasury post," said he, "while I am held in jail on the ridiculous charge that I am a revolutionary. I am not a revolutionist!" And sulky Señor Velasquez sat down in the dank depths of his historic dungeon...
...China; both sprang up to fill a need. Tong means association. The first tong was organized in San Francisco's Chinatown several years before the Civil War to protect its members from the invasion of competitors in business, from legal injustice (or justice). So effective was it that rival or imitative tongs were soon found wherever there were Chinese colonies. Tong leaders began employing hatchetmen (boo how doy), gun- men who managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled the constabulary. Gory, clever, macabre, the tong wars of the early twentieth century had much the same effect...
Some colleges, of which Harvard is probably the leading one, do not require their opponents to have the same eligibility rules but only ask strict adherence to any rules that their rival may have. With these colleges Army can keep on playing under its present eligibility system but with the others, among whom all the Big Ten universities are now notable additions, Army can not hope to remain on friendly terms...
...States of Europe ever begin to trade like those of the U. S. ? that is without the balks and checks of tariffs between States ? then Europe, which already cuts below U. S. prices, should be able so to increase her efficiency as to loom as an appalling rival in the race for world trade...
...Knights of Labor were too idealistic for him, too nonmilitant. The A. F. of L. (''Unionism pure and simple") was too non-political under Samuel Gompers. The railway brotherhoods, opposed to strikes, sought too hard to become "respectable." The Industrial Workers of the World gave promise of a big rival union until it be came an organization of bums addicted to sabotage. Debs believed in political revolution by votes, not in physical revolution by torch and bomb. Significance. Debs was a character who stirred violent emotions. A judi cial appraisal of him by a biographer is well nigh impossible. Biographer...