Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hampshire last month Arthur B. Jenks, Republican, and Alphonse Roy, Democrat, ran a close race for the seat of Representative William Nathaniel Rogers, Democrat, retired. Republican Jenks was declared winner by 550 votes. Democrat Roy appealed for a recount. Last week New Hampshire's Secretary of State Enoch D. Fuller announced the result: Jenks 51,679 votes, Roy 51,679. He suggested the rivals ask the State Ballot Law Commission to review the recount. If the Ballot Board does not change it, incoming Governor Francis P. Murphy will probably have to call a special reelection...
...black Harry Payne, a onetime Howard quarterback, to work part-time for $900. Under Coach Payne the Bisons proceeded to lose every game, were held scoreless in four of them. Fortnight ago 3,000 spectators were waiting in the stands to see Howard play Virginia Union when an announcer ran breathless onto the field with the news that the Bisons had quietly walked out on the game...
...defeat two other amendments sponsored by the management which he considered inimical to stockholders' rights. According to lean, curly-haired Mr. Getty, President Humphrey and nine other Tide Water directors besides himself and Mr. Grimm controlled only 8½% of the company's stock, yet they ran it and sought to perpetuate themselves. But the other stockholders, having been solicited by both sides, stuck by the management. Mr. Getty lost on each point, was unseated as a director. Although he would have lost anyway, Mr. Getty was annoyed by the fact that Mission...
When Caulaincourt arrived at Essonnes, he found Ragusa acting queerly. An emissary from the Allied field headquarters nearby had arrived at the same moment. Puzzled Caulaincourt ran down to the courtyard to see about getting through the Allied lines, found when he returned that Ragusa was involved in mysterious negotiations with the enemy. But Ragusa was one of Napoleon's most trusted officers. "No one," the Emperor said, "inspires me with more confidence." Worried, Caulaincourt hustled Ragusa into a carriage and carried him on to Paris. The emissaries stopped at Allied field headquarters on the way. There Ragusa raced...
...college, hoping to emulate Davis' hero who "figures heroically in South American revolutions, had amorous encounters with spitfire senoritas and was generally in vincible." He waxed his mustache, got into the Ecuadorian cavalry, was all set for adventure when he came down with jaundice, ran out of money, made his way with great difficulty to Guayaquil only to find the port quarantined with bubonic plague. There the innocent soldier of mis fortune hit a real romantic adventure. Late at night he picked up a mysterious Chilean girl, a little plump and strangely absentminded, but pretty. He took...