Word: contests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reads Section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934, giving the FCC the job of setting rules for radio's participation in political campaigns. Since the Communications Act became law, four years of election campaigns have passed into history, one Presidential contest. Loud cries of foul! rose from candidates who thought themselves victims of station discrimination. But the FCC left its mandate untouched...
School District No. 5 in Dearborn, Mich, had a school board election last week. Expecting a close contest, voters turned out in unprecedented numbers. With 266 votes and a record majority, they re-elected an old board member, one Henry Ford...
...retired shoe manufacturer named Arthur Byron Jenks. That day Republican Jenks. running for his first political office, thought that he had beaten Democrat Alphonse Roy for Congress in New Hampshire's ist District by 550 votes. Less happy were many succeeding days as the Jenks-Roy contest shuttled back and forth in a tantalizing series of recounts (TIME, Dec. 7. 1936. et seq.). One count came out 51,679-to-51,679, first tie in a Congressional race in no years. Another gave Contestee Roy an edge of 17 votes, which a third upped to 24. When Mr. Jenks...
...Today's contest is the windup for the crucial encounter with Dartmouth Saturday at Hanover which will decide the Eastern Intercollegiate League race. Right hander Tom Healey, whose most recent performance was in an able relief role against California, is the logical choice to do the flinging...
...present, the Crimson leads the field by a percentage margin with a record of seven wins and two losses with three games left to play. Dartmouth has won eight and lost three, and Saturday's game is her final contest. If Harvard can win the game, it is at least assured of a tie for the title, even if it should lose its remaining games with Yale...