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...guest New York's one-time Senator James Wadsworth. The name of Wadworth, too, was to be put before the convention for Vice Presidential consideration. There was also the chance that Vice Presidential lightning might flash over the Philippines and hit Theodore Roosevelt in Manila. It might also nip Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley as he sat in seclusion in Chicago and framed the river & harbor development plan for his party's platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Cool & Damp | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...November contest between Democrat White and Republican Ingalls is expected to be nip & tuck. Nominee Ingalls may fall to earth trying to carry Ohio for the Hoover Administration. If he does, his friends assure him he .will not be a burnt offering on the altar of the national ticket. His friends assure him he is young enough to take a beating without ruining his political career. Besides, he had nowhere else to go but into the Ohio gubernatorial race. By his energy he had worked himself out of his Washington job, having brought the Navy's five-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In Ohio | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...manager, was in Davenport, Iowa, last week to harvest a crop of 26 convention votes for his candidate. After pledging its delegation to use "all honorable means" to help nominate the New Yorker, the meeting howled down a proposal that Oklahoma's Governor Murray, who ran Governor Roosevelt a nip & tuck race in the Des Moines Register and Tribune poll, be named as second choice. Iowa Democracy also favored re-submission of the 18th Amendment to the States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: 129 to 36 to 23 to 0 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

Displaying some of the best basketball they have shown all season, the Freshman courtmen lost a nip-and-tuck encounter to a strong Dean Academy quintet by a scant two-point margin. 29 to 27, yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1935 LOSE TO DEAN ACADEMY | 1/20/1932 | See Source »

...brusque and belligerent veteran of the London Naval Conference, Ambassador Dawes was no expert on the matter of land disarmament, would have to lean heavily on technical advisers. Only the most niggling of Mr. Hoover's critics would suggest that he had shunted the Ambassador to Geneva to nip a nascent Dawes-for-President boom. Last week Ambassador Dawes prepared for a rush trip to the U. S. for instructions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arms, Men & A Woman | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

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