Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encourage them, the Republican State chairman took a poll of 10,000 Ohio Republicans on their preference in candidates. First place (56.3%) went to Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. That did not help much. Governor Landon thanked them kindly but declined to contest Ohio without stumping the State, which he could not do because it would not be "fair to the people of Kansas" to neglect his job as Governor. Second place (20.8%) in the poll went to Senator Borah. That helped even less. Third place (13.2%) went to Colonel Frank Knox. Publisher Knox declined to take the risk. Fourth...
Next Saturday between 2 and 4 O'clock in the Music Building the semi-final trials will be held and ten men will be selected to enter the final competition to be held Wednesday, March 25. The judges for this contest will be three in number, chosen from the English Department. The speaking Saturday was judged by Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, and his assistant Norman W. Mattis, instructor in Public Speaking...
...decision was returned in the contest, which was on the question of government control of commerce and industry within the national boundaries. Emphasizing the political side of the argument, Duggan maintained that too much concentration of power in the hands of the federal government is a bad thing for the country, and that the "federal equilibrium" should be preserved...
...sailor suit with as much flare as he ever brought to a top hat & tails. He sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with a sailor chorus; 3) another foxtrot, with Miss Rogers in a crosstime routine; 4) a final ballroom number with her. For those who are tired of the hoofing of this Hollywood team, it is all just more of the same...
Judiciously they saved their enthusiasm for the 1,500-metre run (120 yd. short of a mile), the contest between longtime Rivals Gene Venzke and Glenn Cunningham. Since he became the No. 1 sensation of the 1932 indoor season, Venzke, still a University of Pennsylvania undergraduate at 27, has, for the most part, played third fiddle to Bill Bonthron and Cunningham, has strangely lost none of his popularity with the crowd. Bonthron, now married, has retired until the third Princeton Invitation Meet in June.* Joe Mangan, one-time Cornell miler who defeated Cunningham last month, was recovering from influenza. These...