Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a light workout of 11 miles after the successful time trial of Tuesday, the Crimson Varsity eight will tune up for the 73rd annual Yale contest with a regular row today and a light, four-mile workout tomorrow. Coach Charlie Whiteside says there will be no further changes and that his men are in fine condition. The squad and its supporters at Red Top are resting neither over-confident or despondent, basing their hopes on their three-pounds-per-man-heavier boat and the final time made Tuesday...
Whether he meant to or not, Mr. Hoover thereby injected one more catch-phrase into the forthcoming constitutional contest-"a change to a European form of government." Apparently the man who called Prohibition a "noble experiment" (literally "an experiment noble in motive") and who harped for four years on "rugged individualism" was already itching to get into a momentous fight, the form of which even Franklin Roosevelt, smart politician though he was. did not yet clearly perceive. It remained for Pundit Walter Lippmann. once a good friend of Herbert Hoover, to take most of the wind out of that Republican...
...been awarded the Philip Washburn Prize of $150 for his thesis entitled "The Statute of York and the Interest of the Commons," it was announced yesterday. Haskins, who concentrated in Medieval History during his undergraduate career, was recently chosen winner of this year's Phi Beta Kappa essay contest on the basis of the same thesis, which has received a summa rating from the Department of History...
...California discus-throwers have won every contest since discus-throwing was put on the program 14 years ago. Last week Kenneth Carpenter of the University of Southern California upheld his state's tradition with a throw...
...prospect of a hot contest for the presidency of the New York Stock Exchange disappeared just before election last month when Richard Whitney decided not to seek official renomination for a sixth term and refused to head an independent ticket (TIME, April 15). He did, however, consent to become a candidate for one of the ten regular governorships open each year. Many an Exchange liberal was surprised when Broker Whitney polled 1,146 votes for Governor, 15 more than the vote which elected Charles R. Gay to the presidency. Last week Governor Whitney was elected chairman of the Committee...