Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because of the international character of the matches are the two hockey games the Stubbsmen will play with Montreal and McGill. The Montreal game will be played at the Boston Garden on Thursday night at 8:30 and the McGill game at the Garden on Saturday night. The latter contest arrays the Crimson sextet against one of the most formidable college hockey teams ever developed. In its two opening games McGill defeated Montreal 9-0 and Princeton 10-0. A year ago McGill was the only team which defeated George Ford's team, and the Canadians still hold much...
...weeks brewing, the contest between the maintenance workers and the Director of Buildings and Grounds, Henry L. Norris, is an outgrowth of dissatisfaction on the part of the employees with a company union which claims 337 out of 385 workers...
...have had seventeen children, Your Excellency, and fourteen of them are living, but only nine have been born since April 15 1926-so I have entered only the nine in this contest, Your Excellency...
Italian mothers last week babbled these pleasant tales of motherhood to Benito Mussolini in his big office. They were representative of the 94 big winners in his More Babies Contest who have had 727 children (7.7 apiece) in the last eleven years. Each received from the Dictator last week five crisp new 1,000 lira bills, and to an Italian peasant 5,000 lire is a great deal more than its exchange equivalent in the U. S. ($263). Each also received a paid-up insurance policy. Of the 94 champions one is an Italian noblewoman, mother of seven...
...organized an army of 4,000,000 men in less than two years; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Cleveland, Ohio. An early fighter for Cleveland reform and twice its mayor, he turned from trustbuster to corporation lawyer, from stanch Democrat to New Deal hater who this year helped contest TVA on behalf of power companies...