Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twain to meet has made Illinois politics as unpredictable to the experts of the Roosevelt regime as to most of their predecessors. In 1932 the Chicago Democratic machine of Mayor Edward J. Kelly and old Boss Patrick A. Nash reached out to help Downstater William. H. Dieterich of Beardstown beat Downstater Scott W. Lucas of Havana for the U. S. Senate. Since then downstate has acquired an efficient political boss in the person of bald, forceful Governor Henry Horner (ne Levy), a onetime Chicago probate judge who quarreled with the Kelly-Nash machine and has set up his own "reform...
...Sheldon M. Stewart of Montclair, N. J. received a cable that his homebred Airedale Merry Sovereign had gone to best terrier at Cruft's. his homebred Airedale Ch. Shelterock Modest Smasher was named best of breed at Westminster. But a few hours later the fox terrier which had beat Merry Sovereign for the group award year ago, also put Modest Smasher down-all white Ch. Flornell Spicypiece of Halleston, winner of best in show in 1937 and a favorite...
...during the game is tantamount to dictator. Last week when Caledonia faced Schenectady at Utica, Caledonia was led by grizzled James Whyte, 75, who thinks nothing of playing 42 ends in one day. Septuagenarian Whyte, aided by his teammate. Septuagenarian A. P. Roth, outplayed the comparatively young Schenectady team, beat them 15-to-14, took the Fred Allen Medal. Then with ear-splitting song, the hardy curlers shouldered their brooms and paraded to the bar for refreshment...
Captain George DePinto, of the Yard cops' bowling team, interviewed early this morning, expressed every confidence in the ability of his team to beat Yale's Campus cop bowlers...
...meet the result of which was in doubt up to the final event, Michigan beat Yale last night in New Haven 41 to 34. Before the 400 relay, the score was 34 all, but swimming anchor for the Wolverines, Tom Haynie beat Captain Maclonis of Yale by a yard to take the final seven points...