Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.O.P.'s National Chairman, Brownell had been suspect to rival politicos who feared-despite his careful denials-that he was working strictly for Dewey. He had run into criticism from aggressive Midwesterners who considered his strategy too cautious. But his real reason for resigning, he said, was to earn a living for his four children: he had served full time without salary since the summer...
...Fires of Envy. The Imam's intense isolationism had at last been overcome by his avarice. A king who pays his chief of staff $153 month and his soldiers $2 could scarcely ignore the new $4 to $6 million airfield at Dhahran in the rival neighboring kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or the $6 million a year that blear-eyed Ibn Saud gets from U.S. petroleum concessions. Yahya's Yemen has no oil with which to bargain in the bazaars of international high finance, but it is strategically located near the foot of the Red Sea, across the Arabian...
...Alexander Bustamante, half-Irish boss of riotous Bustamante's Industrial Unions and self-styled "Prime Minister of Jamaica," was out to break the rival Trades Union Council, made up of government and public-service workers. Bushy-haired Bustamante had swept Jamaica's first democratic elections in 1944, boasted "I am the government," now ran roughshod over mild Governor Sir John Huggins...
Coffee-colored Bustamante gathered his tough dock workers, bawled out orders (dictated to his common-law wife-secretary): "Handle the strikers with an iron hand." In reply, Norman Washington Manley, leftist leader of the defiant T.U.C., called strikes among prison guards, firemen and railroad workers. Armed mobs of rival unionists prowled the streets. Three men were killed. Bustamante was hit on the head by a brick...
Gilbert Harrison, one of the founders of the A.V.C., will speak for that one of the more recently-formed outfits, while National Commander Jack Hardy will present the platform of his own Amyets, the A.V.C.'s chief rival at present...