Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleased with the Mills plan, pleased with additional thousands of suggestions brought forward by his contest, Mr. Durant sent his check to Major Mills with a letter of congratulation. Federal prohibition authorities, however, saw in the Mills plan no millennium. James M. Doran, chief U. S. prohibiter, disagreed with the major premise concerning diverted alcohol as the source of "98%" of bootleggers' supplies. He said that the chief source of illegal liquor is the distillation of corn sugar. He added that measures advocated by Major Mills are now "routine practices" in the Prohibition Bureau, described the Mills plan...
...Durant contest also included a special School Prize of $5,000, won by Malcolm D. Almack, Palo Alto high school student. To Hoover Townsboy Almack goes $1,000; to the high school $4,000. The Almack plan dealt chiefly with the necessity for educating the U. S. public to a fuller appreciation of the Prohibition law, its terms, its meaning, its sanctity...
...unsuccessful competitor in the Durant contest was Gifford Pinchot, dust-dry onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pinchot denounced the practice of allowing foreign diplomats to import liquor for diplomacy. Mr. Pinchot said also that only the influence of an ardently dry President can bring about national dryness. He considers President-Elect Hoover satisfactorily dry. He considers that Presidents Wilson, Harding & Coolidge were "apathetic...
...overtime contest, brilliant and drab in spots, the Crimson six fought the fast-skating blue-clad sextet from Toronto University to a scoreless tie on the Boston Garden ice last night. The Harvard hockey forces, though outplayed for the most part, succeeded in halting many of the fierce rushes of their New Year's eve conquerors by timely poke-checking, while the steady work of O. P. Jackson '29 kept the Crimson cage inviolate...
...Crimson combination has shown in the past two games that it can present a concerted attack on occasions. If the team can play throughout the game as it did toward the close of the two previous ones, Toronto will have no chance to let up during the contest as it did in the previous game...