Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago political pundits seriously doubted whether the Democratic Party could ever be revived. The Madison Square Garden convention ("Twenty-four votes for Underwood") was only a prelude to the disaster that overtook Nominee John William Davis in the 1924 election. The Party's very makeup seemed to preclude the possibility of a comeback. In the South it was the party of the established order. In the North and West it was the party of a few political idealists and of strong but disreputable city machines built around the Irish Catholic and foreign-born slum vote. In the South...
...third ranking amateur, national indoor singles champion and co-holder of the world's double title, was signed by Bill O'Brien for an extended tour starting in Madison Square Garden, January 9, bringing into professional tennis the greatest doubles combination in the game...
Guest of the Society of Women Geographers on her 84th birthday was slim, birdlike Annie Smith Peck, who closed her mountain-climbing career two years ago by tramping up Mount Madison. It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck. Miss Peck scaled Cumbre Ana Peck on the sixth attempt but her Swiss guide lost his own mittens and one of hers because "the fool, he didn't put his foot on them...
...Weld 18. Bennett, Josiah W., Belmont Hill, Cambridge, Matthews 32. Brayton, Sherman, Andover, Fall River, Matthews 53. Dampeer, John L., Cleveland Heights High, Cleveland, O., Straus C-42. Gardiner, John, Groton, Gardiner, Me., Mower B-32. Kennedy, Joseph, Jr., Choate, Bronxville, N. Y., Stonghton 20. Ludden, Mouree, West High, Madison, Wisc., Thayer 10. Nesmith, John, St. Paul's Cambridge, Wiggle, G*22. Oakes, Arthur, Oak Park H. S., Oak Park, III., Thayer 14. Stickney, Albert, Jr., Kent, New York City, Weld 3. Sullivan, Robert, Boston Latin, Boston, Matthews...
...bucking-bronco. A cowherd who tried to milk a wild cow would promptly have his brains kicked out. Performances like steer-wrestling, bronco-riding and wild-cow milking were a part of the World Series Rodeo that arrived in Manhattan last week for a stay of 19 days at Madison Square Garden. Grand climax of a circuit that attracts more than 3,000,000 customers every year, takes in $8,000,000, the World Series Rodeo offers $40,000 in prizes, annually awards "world's championships...