Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Speaker Henry Rainey died, Vice President Garner quietly pushed Mr. Rayburn forward for the job of Speaker. He lost because Senator Guffey, then as now big cheese in Pennsylvania, canvassed his House delegation, announced they would vote solidly for Joe Byrns. Thereafter Mr. Rayburn withdrew from the contest. This year matters are different. Sam Rayburn is better known, partly because he is head of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee (he has no other committee assignments) and as such fathered the utility holding company (death sentence) bill. Doing so won him the approval of Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. O'Connor...
Perhaps it might serve to clear up a few of the headaches now so popular and prevalent in England if Mr. Windsor, Mr. Baldwin, and Mrs. Simpson were to heed the latest returns in the CRIMSON "Simpson for Queen" contest...
...national prizes. These, Sponsors Fleisher, Johnson & Gates decided, will not be medals or trophies but scholarships in recognized institutions. Businesslike President Gates announced that Dean John Harrison Minnick of his School of Education is at work on "details" and already hunting for a capable director. Tryouts for the first contest, in the Philadelphia area, are scheduled for spring...
...Angela & Maria: $50,000,000. Their mother waited 40 years for their insane father Prince Francisco of Bourbon-Sicily to die before she married her lover Sir Basil in 1924 only to die 17 months later. Up in London popped a 67-year-old shoemaker, Hyram Barnett Zaharoff to contest the will and claim he is Sir Basil's son "by an early marriage in Russia...
Starting the season with a close game, the Adams team eked out a 3-2 win over the Puritans yesterday in the first baseball contest. With John L. Mason '37 on second and William P. Van Evera '37 on first, Thomas P. Watkins knocked in the winning run in the fifth frame. The Gold Coasters other tallies were both scored by Kenneth M. Clark...