Word: contested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate (TIME, Dec. 9). Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of Raritan, N. J., and his friends had long been planning to boost Mr. Frelinghuysen back into the Senate seat he lost in 1922. He had already entered the Jersey Republican primary when Governor Larson announced the Morrow appointment. With a contest inevitable, Frelinghuysen friends charged that Mr. Morrow had been tricked into accepting the nomination with false assurances that he would be unopposed in the primary...
...young (55), in popularity the best middleman between Regulars and Insurgents. Last week Senator McNary moved up to Assistant Republican Leader when Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington resigned to succeed Wyoming's late great Warren as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Shrewd. Senator McNary will not openly contest the leadership with Senator Watson...
...Harvard and Yale--Cambridge and Oxford meet and who is the Crimson's best miler, is being handicapped by an injury received during the cross country season. A leg muscle, pulled in practice, kept him out of the Yale meet and the I. C. A. A. A. A. contest...
Last week President Hoover stuck close to his White House desk, saw few callers, braced himself for a prolonged contest with Congress. ¶ On Thanksgiving Day the President corrected proof on his message to Congress on the State of the Union (see below), punctuating the hours with an 18-Ib. wild turkey, shot in the Blue Ridge Mountains near his summer camp and presented to him by Postmaster William M. Mooney of Washington. With the White House in mourning for Secretary of War Good, only three extra plates were set, for Allan Hoover, Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Rickard. Other doings...
...meet is successful this year it is planned to make the event an annual affair. It will be the only athletic contest of any kind in which Boston fans can see their favorites in action all at the same time, and should prove a great drawing card for Boston's sporting population...