Word: contested
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Means Committee and No. 1 House conferee with the Senate. Big, slow-spoken, slow-witted, substantial, Congressman Hawley is a high protectionist to the bone. Only too proud is he to have his name go down to posterity on the 1930 Tariff Act. In last week's House contest he personified the orthodox high tariff Republican ideal. Against him were arrayed insurgent Republicans and low-tariff Democrats, leaderless through the absence of Texas' Congressman John Nance Garner, minority chief, who was ill with influenza...
...result of trials held yesterday Robert Haydon Jones '30, of Kow Gardens, Long Island, has a second time won honors in poetry, this time the honor being his selection to represent Harvard in the Intercollegiate Poetry Reading Contest to be held at Smith College on May 17. Jones is also the winner of the word contest for the Baccalaureate Hymn to be used at Commencement...
Still lusting for political expenditures, the House next took up and passed a $110,000,000 River and Harbor improvement bill. Chief contest: acquisition by the U. S. from New York State of the Erie Canal, a money-loser. Western members, pledged to the St. Lawrence waterway, flayed this transfer as a New York plot to kill off the seaway through Canada...
Last week marked the end of a contest for a new definition of art. Sponsor: the Halton Endowment for Girls, Inc. (hospital beds for working girls) of Manhattan. Judges: Funnyman Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Editor Mary Fanton Roberts of Arts & Decoration, Artist Randall Davey. Prize: ($100). Winner: Mrs. John Sloan, plump wife of famed Painter-Teacher John Sloan of Manhattan, President of the Society of Independent Artists. Mrs. Sloan's definition was publicly pronounced during the fifth annual "Carnival of Imagination," a benefit ball and pageant for the Halton Endowment. Clad in ruffles and a Spanish mantilla, Mrs. Sloan appeared...
...defeats over N. Y. U. and Cornell and on Wednesday it beat Columbia by 7 to 1. Dartmouth opened the season weakly but it also beat Columbia last week by a score of 10 to 3. In this game, Myllykangas, the Green pitcher, was the individual star of the contest pitching a sterling game and knocking a home run with the bases full...