Word: marginal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state-election votes in September and the nation's presidential votes two months later. There was, accordingly, nationwide Republican whoopee when William Tudor Gardiner, Republican, was elected Governor of Maine by an 82,000 majority over Edward C. Moran, Jr., Democrat. It was the largest G. O. P. margin in Maine history and was shared generally by the full ticket for Senator and Representatives...
...also said: "In view of the amount of discussion that has taken place as to the accuracy of the Treasury's estimate of income taxes, is is worthy of note that with collections aggregating over two billion dollars they exceeded estimates by the narrow margin of nine million dollars, or error of .42 of one per cent...
...Senator Frederick Hale in Maine's Republican primary last week. He reminded the voters that Senator Hale voted to seat U. S. Senators-suspect Vare and Smith. But the Hale men reminded the voters of Governor Brewster's onetime Klannishness. Senator Hale was renominated by a margin of some 30,000 votes...
When the plaint of tobacco jobbers and retailers reached President George J. Whelan of the Union Tobacco Co.-that they were not making a living margin of profit on tobacco sales-President Whelan set up a smart system of selling them goodwill as well as tobacco. The system, as developed last week, is to give Union Tobacco stock shares to jobbers and retailers in proportion to their purchases. For every $1,000 of Union Tobacco goods a jobber buys he is to get one certificate of Union Tobacco stock worth nominally $30. That is a 3% bonus. For every...
...losers hit F. B. Cutts '28 frequently, in all for ten bingles, but were not quite able to make up the margin between their total and the Crimson score. Cutts kept the game from going into an extra inning in the ninth by a smart play. Phillips had opened the frame with a single and came home when R. C. Sullivan '28 bungled Ellis' grounder. As H. W. Burns '28 started his throw to the plate in a futile effort to catch Phillips, Ellis started for second. Cutts cut off the throw-in and picked Ellis off at the second...