Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan fortnight ago voters roundly trounced Republican Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald by electing Democrat Frank Murphy in his stead. In the contest to succeed James Couzens in the U. S. Senate, the voters picked Democratic Representative Prentiss M. Brown. Senator Couzens having died during the campaign, the Republicans had one consolation prize. Before Governor Fitzgerald left office he could bestow an honor and an honorarium on some loyal Republican by appointing him to fill out Senator Couzens' unfinished term. This week Mr. Fitzgerald made his choice. Said he: "The high office of United States Senator is nothing...
Best "lands" on Oyler's farm last week were those at the ends of the field chosen for the contest. Having drawn one of the middle lands, Minnesota's Ted Balko, 1934 champion, was handicapped by rows so spotty that once he found only three ears in 15 feet, of which one was so small that it flew through a crack in his bang-board. Adam Byczynski, Illinois champion and a hot favorite, husked fast but carelessly. His creditable total of 1,630 lb. was cut down to 1,466 by penalties. Well short of the Byczynski gross...
...expectation swirled over the Stadium last Saturday as the crimson-jerseyed team prepared to clash with the sons of Annapolis. Harvard fans keyed to a high pitch of enthusiasm cheered wildly as the first tackle was made, while up in the press box, typewriters clicked busily. It was a contest between two closely matched teams and many hopes, reputations and even dollars rested on the uncertain outcome. But seated next to our correspondent was a blase young thing, sweetly dressed in red, wearing a fetching red hat, with a red feather protruding from the back of it at an even...
...complete removal of uncertainty. The underlying processes of making and selling the nation's goods had passed through the autumn without faltering. The outlook was promising regardless of elections. Businessmen might not like the results but they at least knew now what they were in for. A closer contest, a stronger minority in Congress, might have left room for doubt. While a few soothsayers remained to croak, "Just wait till two years from now," the majority of Wall Street jumped straight aboard the Roosevelt landslide, ready to ride it while the riding was good...
...Navy entertains no false ideas about the Harvard team which it will play Saturday in Cambridge. The Crimson's slaughter of Virginia last week gave coaches, players, and rooters all an idea of the opposition which they will meet in their final game before the all-important contest with Army. Navy is anxious to win and thus even the series which started with two games almost thirty years ago, but no one has any expectations of other than the hardest kind of battle. The starting lineup will be, in the main, the one which played the greater part...