Word: holds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Where the money was spent indicated where the party chiefs anticipated the hottest contests. To hold their House strength the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee sent $12,500 into Ohio, $7,000 into Missouri, $4,000 into Indiana, $4,000 into West Virginia, $3,750 into Kentucky. In smaller amounts $23,000 was divided among South Dakota, Tennessee, Nebraska, Minnesota, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Illinois, Colorado and Massachusetts. Democrat headquarters was spending heavily to win Senate seats in Oklahoma, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio. A thousand Democratic dollars had been despatched to Oregon to beat Republican Willis Chatman Hawley...
...limited number of members of the Class of 1932 will be offered hold-offs by the eight Junior Fraternities tonight. Each Fraternity will elect no less than one and not more than three men. No man who is at this time on general warning or on probation can be offered a hold...
...procedure is as follows: when a hat man enters the room of a prospective candidate, he will say "Mr. Blank, do you accept a hold-off from K. K. K." If Mr. Blank shakes hands, he is pledged to this fraternity. If he does not shake hands, it is a turndown, and the hat man must leave at once...
...event that two or more men of the Calling Committees should meet outside a room with the intention of offering a hold-off, they shall match, and the winner shall have the opportunity of offering the first hold-off to the individual concerned. -- Yale News...
Again the animal motif is seen in the bronze censer surmounted by three lions, which in spirit resemble the Babylonian rather than the Assyrian. Though this piece is not of the same importance artistically as those already mentioned, still as an example of a decorated house-hold utensil it is not without interest...