Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lodge them in the Gastonia jail for rioting. Thus did the textile strike in North Carolina (TIME, April 8) become rough last week. The National Textile Workers' Union is a Communist organization. The United Textile Workers' Union is a branch of the American Federation of Labor. A contest for control had flared up between these two. The Communist organizers had fostered the Gastonia strike, which now was not moving rapidly enough toward victory to suit the strikers. The mills had hired other workers, continued partial operation. The strikers had grown hungry. Communist Organizers Fred Irwin Beal and George...
Helen Morgan, star of the stage Show Boat, cast in the prolog of the picture to sing some of her songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat...
...measuring pork production is to estimate the weight of pig litters at the age of six months. This system forms the basis of an annual nationwide contest, conducted by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, in which farmers pit themselves against each other in the matter of six-month-old litters, of a ton or more weight. Last week the results for 1928 were announced. Farmers in 30 states produced 492 ton-or-more litters, Pennsylvania winning with 65. Idaho had the heaviest litter-14 piglets totaling 4,156 pounds...
...Freshman tennis team opens its schedule this afternoon with a match with the M. I. T. Freshmen on the Jarvis and Divinity Courts. This contest was scheduled for last Saturday but was postponed until today...
...University tennis team triumphed over its second New York opponent of the week Saturday on the Divinity Courts. Here as in the N. Y. U. match, the greater than average strength of the players in the last three positions of the line-up was the decisive feature of the contest Saturday when Harvard won all the singles matches except the first alid the third and lost the first two of the doubles...