Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Manhattan's Central Park, barber shop music was glorified in an American Ballad Contest held under the popular and versatile leadership of Park Commissioner Robert Moses. While preliminary contests of barber shop quartets were held during the summer in five New York boroughs and two adjacent counties, city employes scouted for authentic properties to transform a bandstand in the Park into a "tonsorial emporium" of the 1890's. They dug up three old barber chairs, Police Gazettes, a coal stove, a flyspecked clock, pictures of John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, a rack...
With Yale and Harvard trackmen matching their paces against a common opponent, Captain Jack Schen led his team through the portals of Palmer Stadium in London this summer for the season's last meet, the annual contest with the forces of Oxford and Cambridge. Milt Green captured honors in the meet with his two first places, while Bob Hall added another first to the Harvard total, but the meet ended in a tie, with six firsts for the English teams and six firsts for the invading Americans...
...vacationists whose train had been held up by a Texas washout. More than a quarter of a day behind schedule, the Dixie dropped down through the Mississippi Delta, swung out into the Gulf of Mexico. Aboard her was a crew of 123 and 233 passengers, including three popularity contest winners from Pennsylvania, a prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, some honeymooners and an assortment of trippers and travelers taking advantage of the cheap rail-water route from the West Coast to New York. It occurred to few that they had chosen one of the most hazardous months of the year to cross...
...American backwoods demagogue to its fullest stature, was not likely to shrink in the estimates of his contemporaries for some time to come. Twenty years ago but a traveling salesman, a peddler of baking powder and cotton seed oil, he married a girl who won a cake-baking contest which he staged. After seven months study of the law, he was a lawyer, wangled himself a job on Louisiana's Railway Commission, and began building up a political following. He made the Governorship in 1928. In short time an effort was made to impeach him, but in vain...
...marching out of the League Council chamber whenever Ethiopian delegates arose to speak. This move backfired, won extra courtesy from other Great Power statesmen for dusky Ethiopian Chief Delegate Bedjirond Tecla Hawariate. Once when Mr. Hawariate, Premier Laval and Captain Eden had to enter the same door, such a contest of bows began that it seemed none would get in. Finally the Ethiopian entered first, next the Briton, last the Frenchman...