Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showing the same bran of ball which had enabled them to win 19 straight victories, Captain Art Johns' Freshman baseball team defeated Yale 8-6 at New Haven Saturday in the objective game of the season. This win gave the Yearlings the almost perfect slate of 20 victories and one tie, the best Freshman baseball record in years...
...pledged to Republican State Chairman Earl Warren, the delegation was well understood to be "uninstructed." In opposition to it, William Randolph Hearst put forward a delegation pledged to Alf M. Landon. Few days later he was joined by lightweight Governor Frank Merriam, who had been ignored in the Hoover slate. Governor Landon, sticking steadfastly to his pose that the nomination must seek him, refused to approve or repudiate the Hearst-Merriam ticket (TIME, April...
...choice of William E. Borah. Alternatives there were none, but that was not a matter of great importance, for this Presidential preference vote was really no more than a popularity rating. The real test was on delegates to the two national conventions. On the Democratic ticket was a complete slate of Roosevelt delegates. Republicans had a choice between a slate of Borah delegates or a slate of uninstructed delegates put up by the regular Republican organization in an attempt to reserve Wisconsin's freedom of action at the Republican convention. Under Wisconsin law any qualified voter can vote...
...fool!" roared the Poet Laureate of California one day last week. In the National Townsend Weekly, Representative John Steven McGroarty had just read a statement by Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend crying a pox on efforts to lure California Townsendites from Republicanism to Democracy, elect a Townsend slate of delegates to the Democratic convention with Representative McGroarty as their Presidential favorite (TIME, April 6). Asserting forthwith that Dr. Townsend had deserted his plan to finance $200-per-month pensions by a transactions tax and now proposed to issue billions of dollars worth of tax-exempt bonds, the angry Poet...
...force the Kansas Governor to a fight, announced that his candidate would enter in California. Presently Senator Borah himself said he was not sure whether he would enter. Meanwhile Borah supporters, including many Johnson men, applied for the necessary papers, circulated nominating petitions, set to work on a slate of delegates. Not until the last day did Senator Borah decide. That he could not spare two weeks to stump California was the reason he gave for not filing. Perhaps a shortage of campaign money helped him make up his mind, and he may have listened to advisers who told...