Word: contest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the political hog-wallow to which Kentucky's two leading statesmen openly descended last week, two days before the end of their primary contest for Mr. Barkley's seat in the U. S. Senate...
...last week after the voting was over in Tennessee, Chairman Sheppard calmly announced: "Up to date, no candidate himself has been connected sufficiently with any charges to justify an election contest before the Senate." And after preliminaries that had promised real gore, only one Tennessean lay dead, though scores were injured in remote McMinn County...
Tennessee -a safety in the defeat of Senator George L. Berry, a questionable New Deal asset, by a "100% Roosevelt man," in a contest fought on local issues...
Darden Jr. of Norfolk, whom Representative Hamilton unseated two years ago. In their contest, the New Deal issue was less clear-cut, Mr. Hamilton only accusing...
Senator Walsh snorted, without disclosing details: "It is almost unbelievable that a political election could reach such a low level! . . . The American people would be shocked!" Senator Sheppard said in advance that the campaign looked so bad it pointed "sharply toward an election contest in the U. S. Senate, regardless of which group's candidate triumphs...