Word: contested
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Flung Huey, the CRIMSON'S peerless prognosticator, predicted late last night that the Cardinals will win today's game at Shibe Park and even up the World Series, one all. The score of today's contest, according to the oriental oracle, will be 3 to 2 with the St. Louis team on the long...
Because Massachusetts favored Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, because it goes Wet in liquor polls, the Democratic primary was crowded. The leading Boston Irish candidate for Senator, James F. O'Connell, and for Governor, John F. Fitzgerald, fell ill and retired from the contest but not in time to get their names off the ballot. Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley called for their nomination on an "all-green ticket" anyway, suggested that the Democratic state committee could later make substitutions for the November election. This political trick left Democratic voters cold. Instead they formed an "all-Yankee" ticket...
...words. He added respectability to the Wet cause. As the first notable Republican to break through the party's Dry stand taken at Kansas City in 1928 his political stock rose so high during the summer that he was often mentioned as a Wet leader who might well contest the Republican Presidential nomination with Herbert Hoover two years hence...
...California and Tilden's bosom friend, Frank Hunter, Tilden insisted on audibly coaching Hunter from the sidelines. So annoying did this become that the tournament committee asked him to leave the enclosure. Then Tilden declined to play his match with John Van Ryn until the Doeg-Hunter contest was over, explaining that the applause (for Tilden) of the spectators might disturb Hunter. The committee hesitated. If Tilden were crossed too often he might leave the tournament, jeopardizing its financial success. But Dr. Philip B. Hawk, acting referee in the absence of President Louis B. Dailey...
Juniors will have an opportunity to compete for the editorial department of the paper. In this contest, during the early stages, each candidate hands in one editorial a day, and receives instruction and advice from the editors...