Word: winner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What recalled the cellar-kegs of the country was the news that Franklin Chase Hoyt, a Manhattan jurist, had won Publisher William Randolph Hearst's prize of $25,000 for a plan to modify Prohibition. The essence of Winner Hoyt's plan was to leave the 18th Amendment alone and simply to rephrase the Volstead Act so that it would prohibit distilled alcoholic liquors-created by acts of man-and permit beverages rendered alcoholic by fermentation, which, explained the Hoyt Plan...
...with my colleagues. Plan No. 21,182 [the Hoyt Plan] is ingenious, but I fear impracticable, in view of the interpretation put upon the 18th Amendment by the Supreme Court of the U. S., which interpretation clearly includes wines and malt liquors in the phrase 'intoxicating liquors.'" Winner Hoyt had anticipated such criticism. Like any reformer-or ironist-he had written in his plan, referring to the Supreme Court, that he was sure that body would not "take it upon itself to nullify the will of the representatives of the People...
...eight of the last nine annual meets of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, a track team from California has come out on top. Last year and the year before the winner was Stanford. Last week, on Franklin Field in Philadelphia, it was Stanford again, with 45 3/8 points, the highest total since...
American Zone Davis Cup play was to be finished at Detroit on June 1, the U. S. v. Cuba. The winner goes to France...
...declared the winner by a close decision, was Eligio Sardinias, a young Cuban-born Negro with big round eyes, long arms, an antlike waist and the inadequate nickname of Kid Chocolate. Kid Licorice would suit him better. When he entered the U. S. a few months ago, he had no fame, although in Havana he had won 100 amateur bouts and knocked out 46 of his spidery opponents. In Manhattan his first professional rewards were coffee and frijoles given to him by informal fighting clubs in out of the way places. Now he has more silk shirts than...