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...Senator Thomas Schall wriggled through to re-election over Democrat Einar Hoidale and thereby gave the G. O. P. its one-man Senate margin. Senator-reject Hoidale called for a recount, threatened to institute contest proceedings before the Senate...
Beset by 100 townsmen in Tepic, Mexico, when he ordered them to surrender their arms, Commandant Nicholas Bernal staged a one-man battle lasting 29 hours last week, wounded 30 of his assailants, was killed by a bomb...
Still more exciting to 68-year-old Dr. Cross was the news, a few evenings later, that his campaign against the one-man rule of Republican Boss John Roraback had been successful, that he was Connecticut's next Governor...
...tremendous campaign to take all four major championships of the world in one year-or to be on hand if some freak of luck, or the sudden spurt of an inferior opponent put him out-these were minor considerations. They did not expect to see him play his best golf, for great golf develops only under pressure, and there is no amateur in the world who stands a chance with Jones six days in seven. But he was there among them in person, the greatest one-man sport-show on earth giving his farewell performance...
Many a publisher has pondered the same question about the gigantic one-man organization of 23 newspapers, 12 magazines. Many a Hearst executive of long service and tested prowess has wondered if he might, in the not-inconceivably remote future, be working for one or more of Publisher Hearst's five sons...