Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan the Golden Rule Foundation * held a contest for American Mother of 1938. Mrs. Grace Noll Crowell of Dallas, Tex. just nosed out Mrs. Eddie Cantor. Mrs. Crowell has three children and has written 1,900 poems, a large number of them about the Home. Last week she arrived in Manhattan with her husband, was put up at the St. Moritz, given a medal, presented to Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, Grover Whalen. Said Mrs. Crowell: "Womanhood is fundamentally sound...
...Yardling team won its fourth contest in seven starts in a final tune-up match before the Yale encounter next Saturday by trouncing the M.I.T. Freshmen 12 to 1 on Coop Field...
...Swaine & Wood, who argued down NRA and the first Guffey Coal Control Act. Arguing for Fred 0. Morgan, Mr. Wood contended that the Secretary had issued his order without a complete knowledge of the facts gathered by subordinates, had erred in denying the company a chance to view and contest the order before it was finally issued. Last week six Justices (Justice Black dissenting, two absent) upheld Mr. Wood, commented caustically upon the Secretary's attenuated review of the evidence, said: "The right to a hearing embraces not only the opportunity to present evidence but also a reasonable opportunity...
Inter-House debating was launched prematurely last night as a Lowell House, intra-Council, team faced a Wellesley contingent in the Wellesley Congregational Church for a non-decision contest. The subject was: "Resolved, That the business policies of the New Deal are detrimental to the best interests of small business...
Starring nine Commonwealth Fellows, exchange graduate students from English universities, six of whom are residents here, a highly-touted Harvard field hockey team faces a powerful Vassar eleven in a presumably heated contest this afternoon at Poughkeepsie...