Word: contested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said at the White House that the President would make no speeches in the interest of any candidates for election next fall, except that he might go to Massachusetts to aid Senator Butler, his close friend and political associate, who faces a stiff contest with onetime Senator David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat), who was unseated by Mr. Gillett two years...
...last week, lessons were proceeding as usual at Oak Park (Ill.) High School, when a messenger from Principal M. R. McDaniel's office entered one of the classrooms and haled Student Sam Givens into the corridor. He was wanted at "the office." Having lately won a local oratorical contest, Sam flushed with pleasure, thinking to himself: "Ho, ho, this will be something that Mac [Principal McDaniel] wants to say to me about the national oratorical contest...
...Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.)-triumph. A fortnight ago, her pride, her young Demosthenes, her handsome Maurice ("Red") Robinson journeyed to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) with his elocution coach, Professor W. N. Brigance, for the National Contest of the Interstate Oratorical Association, for which he had qualified by winning the Indiana state contest (TIME, March 1). Other doughty state champions were there at Evanston: a forceful South Dakotan with an oration on prohibition; a West Virginian propounding that "Science Has a Rendez-vous"; an lowan primed to deliver "Cat and Cattle." But none was so shrewd, none so compelling as Hoosier...
...Jubilee will begin at 6 o'clock with the contest between the, hall choruses after which supper will be served in the Smith Hall quadrangle. Dancing commences in both the Common and Dining rooms at 8 o'clock and lasts until 2 o'clock. Billy Lossez and Bert Lowe have been engaged to furnish the music...
...heavyweight Freshman and University crews will also have an informal race this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Although the Freshmen were victorious by feet in a practice contest a few weeks ago, the University oarsmen have shown great improvement since then, and should lead the first year boat across the finish today by a substantial margin. The Freshmen have shown remarkable power this spring, however and the University rowers are not looking forward to an easy...