Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Healey's pitching and Gannett's hitting featured the contest. Allowing only one earned run and six hits, three of which were scratch, and walking two Lions, the big hurler's control was excellent. Gannett, hitting in hard luck during the spring trip, connected safely four out of six trips to the plate and also turned in several sparkling catches...
...wrecking of the motor workers union would be a serious matter. John L. Lewis, locked in contest with A. F. of L. over the Wagner Act, jockeying for advantage in peace talks with the Federation and tied up in contract negotiations for his miners with soft-coal operators, did what he had done before: shipped his lieutenants, Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, to the scene of disruption...
...indirect consequences of the dance craze launched by the Castles was the Charleston, which broke out in 1925. One of the consequences of the Charleston was a series of Charleston contests which raged in all U. S. cities in 1925 and 1926. These Charleston contests bred Hollywood stars (Joan Crawford, Carole Lombard) as swamps breed mosquitoes. When little Ginger Rogers won a State Charleston contest in Dallas in November 1925, her destiny was settled...
...only four of his eight elections have Republicans bothered to nominate a candidate against him. Patronage is therefore unimportant to him. He has not pressed for places on important committees. He turned down the $15,000, 14-year job of Comptroller General. In 1936 he declined to contest for Josiah Bailey's Senate seat, which he might easily have won, because he likes Joe Bailey. Over his colleagues in Congress, as over his constituents, he has developed a hold based on respect and confidence. Aged 49, he regards John Nance Garner as "a second daddy." For all 14 years...
...Wade prize of $50 will be given to the Debating Council to be awarded to one of the best speakers in the annual H-Y-P debate. For this year the Corporation has voted to give the prize both to one of the winners in the speaking contest and to a high man in the Triangular Debate...