Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phase, the Democratic contest is essentially a two-man race. Stevenson's solid victory in California practically eliminated another dark horse, Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington, who might have come forward as the leading "moderate" candidate if Stevenson had faltered. As the delegate-counting season opened, Stevenson clearly had a long lead in delegates pledged, announced or presumed to be for him. The best estimates at week's end of first-ballot strength...
Iowa. With no presidential delegates at stake, the leading contest was for the Senate seat occupied and defended by Republican Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, 59 ardent supporter of the Benson farm program. Hickenlooper won renomination by a two-to-one margin over Attorney General Dayton Countryman, 38, temperance and high price-support advocate. Hick's November opponent will be R. M. ("Spike"') Evans, 65, landowner, onetime AAA administrator under Henry Wallace and a high price-support man who defeated Jefferson Attorney Lumund Wilcox, 43, for the Democratic nomination. In contrast to the Republican vote (down 22,000 from...
Montana. Bitterest Democratic contest was for the gubernatorial nomination. The winner: Attorney General Arnold Olsen, 39, vigorous, controversial antagonist of Montana's oil. railroad and utility interests, who defeated ex-Governor (1948-53) John W. Bonner and looks forward to a hard fight with Republican Governor J. Hugo Aronson in November...
...whether from overconfidence or from an inability to cope with a tough Yale defense, the Crimson surprised everyone by losing both games to the Elis, scoring only once in each contest...
...spring of 1931 marked a return to cordial athletic relations with Princeton in everything but football. It was an auspicious new beginning, for in the first major contest with Nassau, the Crimson crew swept to an impressive four-length victory. New London that June saw the first win over Yale since 1927 and one of the most gruelling four-mile races ever rowed...