Word: contested
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Senator Thomas Schall wriggled through to re-election over Democrat Einar Hoidale and thereby gave the G. O. P. its one-man Senate margin. Senator-reject Hoidale called for a recount, threatened to institute contest proceedings before the Senate...
...costly shells out of the coffers filled by great Football. Recently Yale men were asking in their alumni weekly that football be restored to normal. Last week the alumni committee on athletics at the University of Pennsylvania charged in its annual report that college football has become "a contest between professional coaches and their systems," that it shows signs of becoming a "racket." Meanwhile the non-collegiate Public, considering football its own property by virtue of the money it spends on it, last week thought of a new use for the game A dentist wrote a letter to a Hearst...
...University-Jayvee contest, E. J. Grover '31, starred for the Seconds, who played one of their best games of the season. For the Freshmen, R. E. Masjoan '34, who tallied four times, and William Wemple '34 starred...
...Portage, Wis., 56 years ago, still lives there. Once an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, she has served on the Board of Regents. Once a newshawk (for Milwaukee papers and New York World) she is now newsworthy. In 1911 she won first prize in a short-story contest in which there were 15,000 entries. In 1921 her play Miss Lulu Belt won the Pulitzer Prize. Last month she publicly forgave a plagiarist (TIME. Sept. 15). Other books: Preface to a Life, Faint Perfume, Birth, Friendship Village...
Andrew Carnegie named one of his steel plants after Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in order to increase his chances of getting Pennsy business. In England, Cyrus McCormick exhibited a rusty shipwrecked harvester in competition with spick-&-span machines, won the contest, increased his sales. Frank Munsey never once during 25 years forgot that a certain associate was deaf in his right ear. Dwight Morrow surprised Calles by being human. A University President got a second million out of a philanthropist by making sure that the first million was thoroughly publicized. Famed Realtor Joseph P. Day sold...