Word: margineers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith of Detroit called for support from drinkers, bootleggers, "speakeasy" men. Candidate John C. Lodge, grand-uncle of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, called for no one's support. He made no speeches, signed no campaign literature, made no promises. His friends elected him Mayor of Detroit by a margin of 12,188 votes. Mayor-elect Lodge announced he would not sweep Mayor Smith's appointees out of office wholesale, would not countenance Prohibition "snooping...
...Panama-Pacific International Exposition to town, in L915. He was the man whom they had elected in 1912 to keep San Francisco from being exploited as "the Paris of America." The San Franciscans re-elected Mayor Rolph for a fifth four-year term by a 30,000-vote margin...
...more of a contest than the casual observer might except. There is no doubt but that Yale has the stronger team in so far as potential possibilities are concerned, and the records for the season show that the New Haven aggregation has had the greater success by a wide margin. Yale has defeated Army, Princeton and Dartmouth, three of the strongest teams in the East. Harvard, has had but one outstanding victory to its credit, that over Indians, but has fallen before Purdue, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth by no uncertain margins. On paper, as the sporting fraternity is prone to express...
...field goal then counted four points, and this margin was a winning margin in that game...
Bearing this in mind, the Forecast fortune has been staked on the issue of today's contest. He has bet that is Yale wins, it will be by less that a touchdown margin. Having scouted the Blue last week, I am enough impressed with their strength to concede them the bare possibility of a victory by a goal; but I refuse absolutely to grant them the superiority of a touchdown. If I'm wrong, you are all invited to a little party in Section 32, Row PP, right after the game. There will be refreshment's Joe Forecast will...