Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, Harold Stassen got only a trifle less than Taft and Dewey combined. He walked off with 43% of the vote, to 36% for Dewey and 11% for Taft.* And he had done more than win a popularity contest. Thirteen of Nebraska's 15 convention delegates announced that they would vote for Stassen on the first ballot -though they are not legally bound by the primary results. The significance of the Nebraska election was that, in the space of two short weeks, Stassen had become the man to beat for the nomination -the man for all other candidates...
...conflict with Russia is mainly a contest for power between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. Britain can and should stay...
...Words or Less . . ." Typical "cancer month" commercial, on Manhattan's WQXR: "Would you like to win a $9,300 house ... a $2,000 Alaska seal fur coat, a ... piano, an ... automobile? . . . Listen to the details of the New York City Cancer Committee's amazing radio jackpot contest! All you have to do is to complete in 25 words or less the statement 'I give to conquer cancer because . . .' and send it in with a contribution of at least 25?." Chief designer of the new technique in cancer fund-raising is Campaign Chairman Elmer H. Bobst...
Princeton's rugby team defeated the Crimson 3 to 0 by a penalty kick for field goal Saturday in an otherwise close contest which saw a determined Harvard onslaught fall in the second period. Some 300 rooters turned out for the game at Soldiers Field...
Judges for the contest include Cecil B. Atwater, photographer and lecturer on Mexico, and Leigh Hoadley, Professor of Zoology and Master of Leverett House...