Word: burnley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those in launches or on the train saw Cornell and Washington away first: watched California's scarecrow stroke Dick Burnley, make his first challenge at the mile; noticed the way Navy at the halfway mark held on behind California and Washington. At the railroad bridge, 1 mile from the finish, California began to challenge in earnest; Washington's stroke Ed Argersinger, sent his beat up and began to watch California whittle down his half length lead by inches...
...Uncle Arthur who sat up in bed, had his back gently slapped, his big paw shaken. Actually the sick leader had been defeated. His hard-swearing, quarter-deck-pacing opponent, Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V. C. retired, Conservative, who commanded British "Mystery Q Ships" during the War, had won Burnley by 8,209 votes. At "The Old Bull," when this terrible truth was known, party workers could not bring themselves to face the Chief...
Defeat faced Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald at Seaham (see below) where the vote was cruelly close, and Opposition Leader Arthur Henderson lost his seat at Burnley. But neither could be irrevocably "defeated." When the leader of a British party fails to win, some henchman who has won a "safe seat" resigns, turns it over to the leader at a cut-and-dried by-election...
...appointed to that position in a personal capacity," said Mr. Henderson. He vowed he will not surrender the plum, added enticingly, "It rests with your electors of Burnley whether I shall preside as your representative...
Mild Mr. Henderson, who has no stomach for some of the "Bolshevism" which extremists in his Party have made him swallow, campaigned bleatingly last week, dazzled Burnley audiences with an account of how the League chose him (when British Foreign Secretary) as Chairman of the World Disarmament Conference that will meet next February (TIME, June...