Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular party organizations because it meant depriving one of them of a place on the ballot. The Republican organization put up Milwaukee Manufacturer Julius Heil. Democratic chieftains and the State New Deal machine got behind young Jerome Fox, who resigned his job as an HOLC attorney to make the race as a Roosevelt man. Coalitionist Henry, no New Dealer and deeming the Republican nomination better than the Democratic, thereupon called on his Democratic supporters to vote for him in the Republican primary...
Auspiciously inaugurating the new season, which officially begins this afternoon. Bud Talbot introduced Bert Haines as the first speaker. Haines was full of praise for the way the Henley Regatia was run this year. His only regret was the close race his 150-pound oarsmen lost to Kent in England. "Kent was too heavy for us in that strong headwind." he explained ruefully...
Bolles told his men that fall rowing was the time for individual development. "Now I don't expect you to prepare for a four-mile race." he said "but I hope you'll all show up at Newell Beathouse with clear eyes and a steady step...
Bolles will open the meeting with some general remarks, and Captain Dudley Talbot '39 will also speak. Bert Haines, coach of the 150's, will tell about the Harvard lightweights at the Henley regatta accompanied by motion pictures of the event. Pictures of last June's Harvard-Yale race will also be shown. Bolles has announced that fall training for all men will begin tomorrow at Newell Boat House...
...Mann's faith is an optimistic one, for to him, popular government will certainly triumph over any rule of the select or of Supermen. Democracy is a norm to which men, by their nature, will return. Because it is "rooted in the eternal hunger of the race," it will always reassert itself. Again democracy will triumph because, by its very refusal to concentrate on the production of Supermen, by its humility and criticism, it produces greater men than can Fascism...