Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor & Industries has won him Labor's tacit approval. Unless the Democratic machine can keep the name of Senator Coolidge's son-in-law Robert Greenwood off the November ballot as an independent, the Governor will be at a distinct disadvantage. Many an observer of the Massachusetts contest thought that Nominee Curley was more likely to beat himself than Cabot Lodge...
...Lily Kenny, 33, claims to be the mother of 14 (seven living), of whom twelve were born within Toronto's city limits. City records show only ten registered within the decade. Rats killed one Kenny child. If the contest judges rule out her two unrecorded infants, Mrs. Kenny still has a good chance to break the tie and pocket Bachelor Millar's $500,000 by delivering the child she is now carrying before All Souls...
Baby derby addicts got one of the contest's biggest thrills last week when suddenly Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke, 24, revealed herself the mother of ten, eight living. Mrs. Clarke's reluctance to put her claim forward was not unnatural. Five of her offspring are children of her husband, a Toronto railroad worker from whom she separated four years ago. The others, including twins who died last year, are by "the only man I ever really loved, the man to whom I am married by nature if not by law. When we were first together we thought...
Dick Harlow has divided his squad into two rival camps for this contest, one coached by Wes Fesler and Skip Stahley; the other by Rae Crowther and Howie O'Dell. These squads were divided with the object of making a close game, not as A and B groups...
Died. Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) Farmer-Labor Senator from Minnesota; of pneumonia; at Litchfield. A homespun Swedish immigrant, he was proud of his Washington nickname of "yenerally speaking Yonson." Lured into a cow-milking contest once with the late Secretary of Agriculture Henry Cantwell Wallace, he lost by half-a-pint, protested his cow had been milked previously...