Word: rival
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Stalin to have Turkey, a secondary power, control the Bosporus is bad enough, but to have one of his rival dictators, Hitler or Mussolini, dominate the Straits would place him in an economic strait jacket. With them around, his chance of getting it for himself is small but he has every reason for cooperating with Turkey and Bulgaria to keep his rivals out, chiefly by lending the use of his Black Sea Fleet based on Nikolaev and Sevastopol. If Hitler and Mussolini are seriously weakened so that he does not have to fear war with them, he might well attempt...
Willkie swept through with 107 out of 200 or 53 1/2%, while his Democratic rival was polling only 71 ballots, or 35 1/2%. Norman Thomas won five tallies and Earl Browder two, with 12 voters registering themselves as undecided...
...girls of Pine Manor Junior College will receive a special treat with their afternoon tea next Wednesday when they hear two of the leaders in the rival Harvard political organizations debate the campaign issues...
...Student Union will hold its first membership meeting of the year at 7:30 o'clock this evening in the Lowell House Common Room, where the two rival factions, split on foreign policy, will battle for control of the organization...
...present mess there is much that can be saved. Apparently there are going to be two rival peace groups; that's all right so long as they are real peace groups, don't waste all their energy fighting each other, and act as a healthy balance wheel for such organizations as the Student Defense League, with its thinly-veiled interventionist stand. It is up to the Marx-Stange element to avoid being obstructionist and taking a wholly negative stand, opposing everything but their own domestic policy, and claiming that that is the cure-all for America's troubles. Likewise...