Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were the prominent New Dealers not at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia last week. One absentee was Franklin Roosevelt who remained in Washington. Another was his wife, Eleanor, who at Reedsville, W. Va., her favorite subsistence homestead, awarded ribbons in a fiddlers' contest and received the first vacuum cleaner assembled as an industrial job by the homesteaders. The President did not have a great deal to do except sign some bills left by Congress and say good-by to a few others who were not going to Philadelphia. For him it was something of an experience...
Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche, a novice tobacco-chewer, squirted a stream at a Statehouse cuspidor at Baton Rouge, was so pleased when he hit it that he remarked: "I'm going to challenge the Texans to a tobacco-spitting contest...
...Nieman died rich at 77, leaving in trust his $5,500,000 Journal holdings. Last February, four days after making a new will bequeathing her residuary estate to Harvard University to "further journalism," his widow, Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, followed him. Last week three distant relatives popped up to contest the widow's will, claim this respectable publishing fortune on the ground that Mrs. Nieman was of unsound mind when her testament was drawn...
...Jersey's eyes the Hoffman-Fort battle eclipsed the Landon-Borah contest. While Fortians were urged to "vote the alphabet" (C for Conklin, D for Duffield, E for Edge, F for Fort), Governor Hoffman's machine concentrated on urging the faithful to vote not for four Landon delegates-at-large but for Hoffman only, thereby saving the Governor's face with "bullet votes." Fort men charged that in mustering Republican votes, the Governor was supported by Jersey City's Democratic Mayor Frank Hague. Indeed, in Boss Hague's Hudson County Hoffman polled four votes...
...simply because his pint-sized opponent could not reach his face. ¶ The 147-lb. title bout which Negro Howell King won despite the unholy booing of partisan spectators who thought he had overcome Chicago's own Chester Rutecki by low punches. ¶ The 160-lb. championship contest which went to Negro Jimmy Clark, who was so enraged at the continued booing that he floored his Syracuse University opponent for a count of nine in the first round. ¶ The 175-lb. bout won by Creighton University's Footballer Carl Vinciquerra, who beat to a pulp the handsome...