Word: contestant
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Significance. Obviously the Ontario election today resembles not so much a contest between parties as the sort of plebiscite staged by a Dictator when he wants the blanket approval of the people for his measures. About such a poll, honestly conducted as it will be in the Province of Ontario, there is nothing illegal but there is something new. In the streets of Toronto alarmed C. I. 0. adherents shout "Herr Hepburn!" at the Premier and with catcalls give him derisive Nazi salutes...
...drafted several days before John L. Lewis' broadcast (see p. 11) was a Presidential Labor Day statement. By coincidence it sounded so much like a pointed reply to C. I. O.'s major-domo that some papers described it as such. Wrote the President: "The age-old contest between Capital and Labor has been complicated in recent months through mutual distrust and bitter recrimination. Both sides have made mistakes. . . ." On one major point, the President and John Lewis agreed: "The conference table must eventually take the place of the strike...
...Ranger was something easily comprehensible to the whole Pacific Fleet. He had just won the puzzler's equivalent of first prize in the Irish-sweepstakes, had beaten 2,000,000 other hopefuls for the $100,000 first prize in Old Gold cigarette's famed rebus puzzle contest (TIME, May 24). News of the award and names of 200 out of 1,000 other prize winners were published last week in 350 U. S. newspapers by P. Lorillard Co. Inc. over three months after the last Old Gold rebus appeared publicly. During this interval the company and its advertising...
...every 37 entrants in the contest -54.000 contestants all told-got all the answers to the rirst group of puzzles right. A second set of 90 more difficult puzzles was mailed to them, to be solved in ten days. One in every six-9,000-came through this. A third set of 90 puzzles most fiendishly devised served only to prove the calibre of the 9,000, of whom 8,160 returned correct answers in five days. In accordance with the rules, the contest thereupon became literary, each survivor having to submit an essay on the increased popularity...
...mandolins; a prize wicker work cake by the chef of Philadelphia's Ritz-Carlton; a prize 18-lb. mousse de foie gras which cost Chef Fernand Gspann four days' labor and $20 to build of sliced truffles, tongue and egg white. Spectacle No. 2 was a beauty contest for local waitresses on "National Distillers Night," which turned rowdy when merrymaking stewards acclaimed their favorites by direct action. In the afternoon that day a special party of gourmets entered another world by visiting the Philadelphia Zoo at feeding time...