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...this constitutes support for a candidate who is expressing the same views. There is no way to put a dollar tag on the hundreds of thousands of man-hours donated by volunteer workers. Nor can anyone adequately measure the enormous built-in advantages that an incumbent enjoys over a challenger???staff, services, the power to make news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Disgrace of Campaign Financing | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

Nineteen years later the flagon had been furbished up, called the America's Cup, put in competition for the second time. Jubilee Jim Fiske, arrayed in white & gold as the admiral of his Narragansett Line, watched the challenger???James Ashbury's Cambria?come in tenth in a field of 24. Nothing daunted, James Ashbury sailed to the U. S. the following year in the Livonia and lost four out of seven match races. Later came the Earl of Dunraven in 1893. He challenged and lost with Valkyrie II. Two years later he built Valkyrie III to race against C. Oliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Newport (Cont.) | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...Little Moscow." There the red fires of communism, which burned brightly a year ago, have been quenched by black hunger. Cowed communists cheered royalty. Suddenly the drab, depressing scene was enlivened as a motor hired by several press correspondents rattled up. They wanted Edward of Wales to meet his challenger???Frank McKay. Working fast they had found Old Frank in a neighboring village, ordering a coffin for his wife. Nothing would do but that he must hop in with them and rush to thank H. R. H. for stopping at his house. When embarrassed Challenger Frank came apologetically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This is Ghastly! | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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