Word: contested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democratic though Manhattan usually is, the Phelps-Pratt contest was not wholly academic. The seat in Congress which each hoped to win is held at present by one William Cohen, shrewd Tammanyite, but formerly it belonged to Ogden Livingston Mills, now Under-Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Pratt vaunts no ambitions beyond representing the People in the Lower House-and living in official Washington. Mr. Phelps hopes, after serving in the House, to be Manhattan's, and perhaps New York State's, great and potent Republican Boss...
...three, the committee voted that the Prohibition Party would continue. Its Nominee was still its Nominee and for him all good Prohibitionists would work, hope, vote. One of Nominee Varney's managers quickly announced: "The position of the majority was that this election is not a bona fide contest over the prohibition question, but a fake contest between the modification program of Governor Smith, on one side, and continued nullification by the Republican Party, on the other side...
...subject of almost endless speculation. So important a detail as a postponement stirred unusually eager discussion. Would the added days give the U. S. four, new as a team to international play, a much-needed opportunity to work in W. Averell Harriman at No. 1, and to settle the contest for the No. 4 position? Every poloist loves and reveres the name of Devereaux Milburn, most famed No. 4 of all time. Meadowbrook fans had to scour their memories to recall an international match when Hero Milburn did not play Back for the U. S four. But this year...
...contest that rocked the copper mining area of Montana a generation ago came to a formal close yesterday with the sale of the mineral, timber and banking properties of the late Senator W. A. Clark to the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. . . . The Butte Miner, a newspaper owned by the Clark interests which played a part in the past struggles, also was sold...
Amazed by the violence of the Butte Miner's invective, and also amazed by the assumption of the Times that the contest was "closed," U. S. coppermen reviewed 50 years of fierce warfare over the mines at Butte, Montana, greatest of the world's copper camps...