Word: rival
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Republican comment on the Cromwell candidacy, from Congressman Fred A. Hartley Jr. of New Jersey: "This should be encouraging news to the Democratic finance committee, but it should be equally pleasing to Senator Barbour [who will be Mr. Cromwell's rival in November...
Turkey. If the rival mobs began to shoot it out in the Southeast, a good deal of the gunplay would take place in Turkey's front yard, the Dardanelles. With Italy's fleet on the prowl, Turkey sent her 23,000-ton, model 1911 battle cruiser Yavuz (the onetime famed German raider Goeben) and other naval units into the Sea of Marmara lying between the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Russia began maneuvers in the Black Sea after having laid mines off her main port Odessa and the oil port Batum...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 led the list of voters with 34.3 per cent of the students with Thomas Dewey, Michigan '23, his nearest rival with 26.6 per cent. Cordell Hull, National Normal University '91 polled 7.3 per cent; Arthur H. Vandenburg garnered 6 per cent: and Robert A. Taft, Yale '10, collected 4.2 per cent...
...equal to, or bigger than, Hurok's. There was much furious measuring of type, and once Hurok had to go out, pastepot in hand, and stick the Colonel's name on some three-sheet posters from which it had been omitted. Today Colonel de Basil manages a rival troupe and earthy S. Hurok, who knows what he likes, is final arbiter of the Monte Carlo ballet programs...
When it heard of the Harvard Anti-War Committee's plans to sponsor a rival rally at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Sanders Theatre with Thomas as guest speaker, the Peace Rally Committee contacted speakers for both meetings to see if they wouldn't participate in a united peace demonstration...