Word: contested
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...sensible point of view concerning the question of intramural sports is voiced by the Boston Herald in a today's press. Be it ever so humble, there is more at stake in an intercollegiate contest, more definitely are the opponents aligned against each other, and more keenly does the participant feel his importance and his common cause...
...took the lead and tried in a vain attempt to draw the Crimson and Green runners out, but merely burned himself out. At the end of the eighth lap Hallowell went into the lead and was never again headed, finishing a good 20 yards in the lead. The real contest was between Estes and Hutchins, with the Crimson man after fighting his way into the lead on the last lap finishing several yards ahead of the Green runner. The time...
...Adopted a resolution unseating Augustus McCloskey, Democrat, seating Harry M. Wurzbach, Republican, as representative from the 14th Texas district, following an election contest...
Behind the contest on the Hughes nomination was a major question of economics, in the centre of which stands the Supreme Court. The 14th Amendment says: "Nor shall any State deprive any person [or corporation] of life, liberty or property without due process of law." When a State agency attempts to reduce or regulate the rates charged by a public service corporation (power, gas, transportation, communications) and thereby affect its profits, that corporation may carry its objections to the Supreme Court. There it claims that the State agency has violated the 14th Amendment by depriving it of its "property...
...Democratic victory of 6,421 votes in such a traditionally Republican district set political soothsayers to work. Republicans, badly jolted, attempted, in an awkward unconvincing way, to belittle the election's significance, to explain it away as a local prohibition contest unreflective of national sentiment toward the Hoover administration. Democrats in Washington minimized Prohibition, their party's rock of schism, joyfully saw in the election only an uprising against an outworn partisan cry of "Hoover prosperity," symptomatic of a major economic revolt against Republican diddling on the tariff and unemployment. Wets naturally could see nothing but a resounding...