Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that point, the Senatorial committee retired to take thought. "I don't know where we are," mused Senator Logan. "Gentlemen, we're treading on dangerous ground. Texas went Republican once. Suppose there's a close contest between Republicans and Democrats for the control of the Senate. Senator Connally, how'd you like to have your Texas Republican opponent contest your certificate of election on the grounds that Texans didn't allow niggers to vote...
Last February the Howell committee, still Republican, went to New Orleans to scrutinize the Overton-Broussard contest. During an explosive two weeks it became clear that the foes of Senator Long were trying to put the "Kingfish" and his crowd on trial instead of Senator Overton. The inquiring Senators scattered, dismissed their counsel. For nine months the inquiry slept. Fortnight ago it was revived as the result of vigorous protests from such outraged Louisianans as Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune, and her Women's Committee...
...being played between Yale and Harvard on the new lines of purely amateur-coached and informally selected elevens. The game was a tie, but was a good one, full of hard playing, quick thinking, fumbles, and off-side enthusiasm, and all that goes to distinguish a purely undergraduate contest when not made too mechanical or professionally trained. There was a respectable crowd in attendance--compared with the Georgia game one might say small, but respectable, so far as manners in public are concerned. It was a dark and rainy afternoon, but the "rooting" made up for the lack of seats...
Back of Mr. Dodge's rage lay the subject of superchargers or blowers, to increase engine power. Long has he wanted to supercharge his boats, but Gold Cup rules forbade. Lately at a meeting of the Gold Cup Contest Board, by means of family proxies Mr. Dodge won a vote approving superchargers for next year's Gold Cup race at Lake George, N. Y., over the bitter protest of other contestants. Last week A. P. B. A. was sympathetic but firm. The Gold Cup's deed of gift forbids major changes in contest rules after a challenge...
...happened at Harvard, the College has superseded the class as an athletic unit. College athletics are organized much as at Cambridge, with inter-College leagues and outside games. The first contest between a champion Yale College team and a champion Yale College team and a champion Harvard House team was the Saybrook College-Winthrop House game last Saturday, ending in a scoreless tie. At Yale, College residents on probation are allowed to represent their Colleges, even in the championship contests against the Harvard Houses. This provision has resulted in a strange comedy of errors this fall, with Harvard coyly dickering...