Word: winner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress-Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway, Representatives Caroline O'Day (N. Y.), Edith Nourse Rogers (Mass.), Mary T. Norton (N. J.), Nan W. Honeyman (Ore.), Virginia E. Jenckes (Ind.)- lined up chain-gang fashion for a group photograph (see cut). They had gathered to honor the prize winner of a contest conducted by the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee...
Died. Clarence Seward Darrow, 80, criminal lawyer, defender of underdogs, winner of lost causes; of heart disease; in Chicago. Agnostic, bitter opponent of capital punishment ("organized, legalized murder"), Darrow never prosecuted a case, never had a client executed. His great defenses: 1) Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, arrested (1894) on a charge of conspiracy in organizing an American Railway Union strike-acquitted; 2) William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood and colleagues, accused of plotting assassination (1905) of Idaho's Governor Steunenburg - acquitted; 3) Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, charged (1911) with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times Building- imprisoned...
...promptly left behind. Then his legs began to pump and he pulled up on the leaders. With a terrific sprint he crossed the line in 1 min., 11.3 sec., tying the world's record. It did him no good. He was third in the race. The winner, James Bruinel Herbert, New York University sophomore...
...Purdue, winner of the Western Conference...
...Dartmouth, winner of the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference...