Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Providence, Rhode Island's Electoral College did not know until the last minute whether it could meet. Reason: in the town of Warwick four voting machines in one ward had been locked up because of a local contest. Opened at the last minute they showed that false totals had been reported, 200 votes on each machine. Democratic Mayor John A. O'Brien, instead of being re-elected by 179 votes, lost by 621 votes to Republican Albert P. Ruerat. After a three-hour delay: for Roosevelt & Garner, 4 electoral votes...
About to set out from Chicago on an evangelistic tour one day late last July, a broad-shouldered little preacher turned to his secretary, exclaimed: "I just remembered. The American Tract Society asked me a year ago to write a treatise. Here the contest closes Sept. I and I haven't written a line!" With that Rev. Dr. Henry Allan Ironside grabbed a handful of pencils, a package of copy paper. On an eastbound train, he had a chapter ready to mail from Canton, Ohio. By the time Evangelist...
Announcement of the prize award was made last week while Dr. Ironside's work was on the presses. By the terms of the contest it was a "scholarly, up-to-date, popular treatise" written from a conservative standpoint, Mrs. Shepard being a stout Fundamentalist. Called Except Ye Repent, Dr. Ironside's broadside against sin and irreligion states its thesis thus : "To repent is to change one's attitude toward self, toward sin, toward God, toward Christ." Reason why Harry Ironside forgot the American Tract Society's prize contest was that last summer he spent...
Complete except for a few scattered games, the football season of 1936 last week wound up in a series of controversies, prizes and suggestions. Main developments: Rose Bowl representative for the Pacific Coast Conference, chosen last fortnight, is the University of Washington (TIME, Dec. 7). Rules of the contest, to be held on New Year's Day at Pasadena, permit the Pacific Coast representative to invite any team it wants as its opponent...
...moved strangely into the hands of men who had no vision but that of the past, and of men whose political hatred for the direction of American life made them believe that through some abracadabra of legal learning they could turn it backward. ... In this contest of power between a handful of men and a Nation, no longer lethargic but vocal and tense, there can be no question as to the final outcome...