Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, however, it looked as if. for once, the annual Stock Exchange elections this year would provide plenty of hot politics, perhaps even a real contest. For the last five years the name of Richard Whitney has headed the official slate, and his nomination has never been seriously opposed. But Wall Street dopesters were convinced last week that the nominating committee will not name President Whitney for a sixth term. Its choice will apparently be Charles R. Gay, senior partner of Whitehouse & Co., oldest firm on the Exchange (founded 1828). And what had turned the Floor into a hustings...
Three months ago General Electric Co. invited every architect, engineer, draftsman and designer in the U. S. to submit plans for two types of houses in a $21,000 prize contest. Result: The greatest single collection of architects' drawings (2,100) assembled since Depression logjammed the housing industry. Last week the drawings, suspended from wires like baby's diapers on a laundry line, were put on display for a jury in General Electric's Manhattan building...
Yale, without Captain Eggie Miles, Len Klein, flashy forward, and the Sophomore star Bob Beckwith, was in the same straits as was Harvard in the first contest, and after the first basket, was never in the lead...
Climaxing a season which has seen neither ties nor defeats for the poloists, the Freshman riders face Yale's mallet-men tonight on the Eli's home grounds at New Haven. Tonight's contest will be the final game of the year...
...early 1900's, the story centers around the difficult situation of a young man named Ben Harvey, chosen as a dark horse candidate to compete for prosecuting attorney against the pompous Judge Rigby (Berton Churchill), father of the girl with whom he is in love. The ensuing contest results in a break-up of the love affair, leaving the audience in suspense as to the outcome. But in the end the difficulty is patched up in an unexpected but delightful manner. The antics of Stepin Fetchit add considerably to the humor of the picture throughout...