Word: winner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northeastern convocation, President Conant received his twenty-fifth honorary degree, Doctor of Laws. Among 13 other degree winner was Bernard DeVote '18 critic and historian...
Little was also impressed by the Crimson's black nylon pauts. But as for a prediction of the outcome of today's game, the coach isn't talking. Informed that Valpey had said that the winner would need three or four touchdowns, Little said, "That's okay by me, so long as we have the four and Harvard the three...
...Johnson-Stevenson primary race was so close (TIME, Sept. 13) that it was still touch & go when the Democratic State Executive Committee met last week to certify the winner. The committee went over the officially counted returns from the state's 254 counties. The votes that tipped the balance came from eight counties in which Parr's influence is especially strong. Parr, who had more than once delivered thumping majorities for conservative Coke Stevenson, had turned on him and delivered them to New Dealing Lyndon Johnson. How Parr could deliver was shown in Duval County's return...
...voted although the lists showed they had. But Johnson offered affidavits from the same people, in which they swore that Stevenson's men had intimidated them into making their charges. The committee voted, 29 to 28, to include the protested votes and certify Johnson as the winner. Coke Stevenson stalked out, started legal moves to keep Johnson's name off the ballot. He threatened to take his fraud charges to the U.S. Senate to prevent Johnson from being seated...
...last June, the aging (34) champ announced-to the relief of his fans and his mother-that he had fought his last fight. Now his agent, Sol Strauss, of the 20th Century Sporting Club, announced that Joe would defend his title for the 26th time next June -if the winner of the Joe Baksi-Ezzard Charles bout "comes through good." Said Joe's mother: "I feel awful...