Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other ranking briefs in the Scott contest were those of E. Dale Adkins, Jr., and Linn T. Firestone, members of the Williston Club; and Frederick S. Lang and William P. Gray of the Campbell-Ely Club...
Undecided, Although utility men do not contest the right of the Government to fix their rates, they argue lustily about the method used to value their properties for rate-making purposes. Instead of reproduction cost the New Deal would like to have valuations based on what the properties would have cost under a policy of ''prudent investment." For obvious reasons the utilities as a rule favor the former, upheld in a series of Supreme Court decisions since 1898. For reasons equally obvious the New Deal has been trying to get the utilities, either through persuasion or compulsion...
...Camden, Del., Farmer James Harris lost the silver platter he won as first prize in the pie-baking contest of the Peninsula Horticultural Society when Mrs. Hynson Cohee sent word to the contest committee that she had sold Harris the pie for 30?, and that she wanted her pie tin back...
With this in mind it becomes evident that the present system of electing the Class Day Committee of seven should come up for revision. At present men are nominated without regard to their business qualifications so that the election amounts to a popularity contest among defeated candidates for marshal or men whom the nominating committee forgot to put up for marshal...
This testimony was delivered on Monday by George E. Leslie, male nurse at the trial of the contest of the former Harvard graduate's will at the Suffolk probate court. Leslie testified further, "Adams was accustomed to call up his friends during the early morning hours and summon them to his apartment on the plea that he was dying, although he wasn't and he knew he wasn...