Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week America announced a "Bias Contest," with Father Toomey among others in charge, in which $50 in prizes will be awarded to readers culling and commenting upon the worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in the press during March. Father Toomey's observations on the scope of the contest: "Something may not seem to be anti-Catholic at all until one bestows thought upon it. For example, consider the Ladies' Home Joitrnal's birth control propaganda. . . . The bias may be achieved by playing up the anti-Catholic side, playing down the Catholic side ... or by means...
...work shelling pecans for the nation to eat. Shortly Editor White was indicted for criminal libel. Certain of his facts, he was delighted, but harassed Mayor Charles Kennon Quin of San Antonio fulminated: "I always make it a rule not to engage in a fumigation contest with a skunk...
...result of the usual "excellent" performance of the Crimson "All-American" band, when the Princeton eleven was defeated by Harvard, 34 to 0, last November, a contest is being staged to get a new Tiger song...
...join the Dartmouth parade with a basketball team composed of R. P. Kelley '38, R. B. Murphy '39, H. L. Stubbs '39, H. M. Thurston, Jr. '40, S. M. Tonkonow '40, while an informal group of wrestlers, selected from those out for Varsity and Freshman wrestling will have a contest...
Originally scheduled for Saturday, at the request of the Davenport smoothies the contest has been shifted to avoid conflicting with the Smith prom...