Word: contest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Redefined its Monopoly Investigation. To the Independent Bankers Association in St. Paul, Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General in charge of trustbusting, likened business competition without effective anti-trust enforcement to a prizefight without a referee. Said he: "In such a contest the man who puts on brass knuckles will win. This situation will not be solved by hanging mottoes of fair play on the four posts of the ring. . . . We should not blame great industrial organizers. In a hard-played game, an aggressive team will go as far as the imposition of penalties permits, or else it will lose...
When the German army crossed the Austrian border last March, incorporated Austria into the Reich, OE3AH sat at his radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials...
...original initials spelled out MAYBE. Funds for the $1,000,000 campaign were raised half from the studios, a quarter from exhibitors affiliated with the studios, a quarter from independents. Most of it will be spent on newspaper advertising. There will also be radio programs, six trailers, a contest in which 5,404 people will win a total of $250,000 by answering questions about 30 films and writing a 50-word essay. Sample question: "What did Snow White's stepmother coax her to eat in order to cast a spell over her?-a mince pie, an apple...
...ears), looking as giddy as tipsy old maids on New Year's Eve, the horses munched carrots and greens, then champed into a heavily iced birthday cake. Afterward Anna was awarded a special hat-lavender with an ostrich feather-as the most glamorous horse present. But in the contest for work horse with longest service, Anna, being an artist, was disqualified. The award (a leather feed bag) went to Tootsie, who has pulled a pickle wagon through The Bronx for 15 years. "All work and no play," says Mr. Hertz, "makes Dobbin a dull...
Kallie Foutz (rhymes with snouts) of Salt Lake City, great-granddaughter of the late much-married (approximately 25 wives) Mormon Brigham Young, recently won a Make-the-Most-of-Yourself contest sponsored by the fashion magazine, Mademoiselle. Like her competitors, 5,000 other plain young women, she submitted pictures, composed a 500-word essay on ''Why I Should Be Chosen To Be Made Over." Long of nose, mousy of hair, skinny of figure, Miss Foutz won with a frank letter showing no self-pity, frank pictures indicating need of makeover (see cut). Last week she went to Manhattan...