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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Hague had left his rococo Miami Beach winter home to rush back to Jersey City and take a hand in a city election. Defeat was in the wind. His stooge and nephew, Frank Hague Eggers, was on the run. Eggers, who had succeeded aging uncle Frank as mayor two years before, and four other Hague city commissioners were facing a well-heeled and powerful opposition which was determined to throw them out. The man in the high collar, who admits to 73 but is probably past 75, was fighting for political survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Hague's End | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...freshman golf team, with two victories and one defeat behind it, goes against Yale tomorrow afternoon at New Haven in its last match of the season. The match with the Eli pups will decide the degree of success of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Golf Team Invades Eli Fairways Saturday | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

...played host to the varsity tennis team yesterday afternoon and absorbed a 7-2 defeat for its hospitality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Squad Defeats Tech By 7-2 Score | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

...tennis Winthrop suffered its first defeat of the season by defaulting to Kirkland but won the House tennis crown anyway on the strength of its 6 and 1 record. In the other match Dunster beat Adams...

Author: By E. JOUR Otameal, | Title: Eliot Captures House Crew Title; Leverett Cops Second | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

Like the varsity, the jayvees also were forced to row a fast stroke at the finish of their six-crew finals. To defeat Princeton by two-thirds of a length, the Crimson junior varsity had to sprint...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Varsity Crew Gains Eastern Sprints Title | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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