Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office matters carry great weight at the White House. The Minnesota election was barely over before President Hoover appointed Also-Ran Coleman to be First Assistant Postmaster-General, second-in-command of the whole vast U. S. postal service. A friend of Statesman Stimson and Leader Tilson might not win, it seemed, but a friend of Secretary Newton simply could not lose...
...Church will win, it always wins in the long run," Tabasco's Diaz had said, when exiled to the U. S. in 1927. Now the Church had won, and Rome was putting her champion in command...
Trials to win $100,000 for the safest plane extant began at Mitchel Field, L. I., last week. The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics provided the prize money, and an additional $10,000 for each of the first five planes to qualify in the contest. Entries must register before Oct. 3. Until last week only a dozen were listed as competitors. Six were U. S. makes...
John Dawson, chubby-cheeked 26-year-old Chicagoan, played the best U. S. golf and until the semifinals, where he met and was defeated by Scottish Golfer John Norton Smith, seemed likely to win the cup. The Dawson golf, like the Dawson face, resembles that of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Golfer Dawson has learned a wisdom few able amateurs achieve: to prefer a safe four to a perilous three. But Golfer Dawson was troubled less last week by fours than by fives, sixes, and once a seven. Nevertheless during the last nine of the semi-finals he found himself...
...teams were tied in first places in the last Stadium meet in 1927, but Harvard and Yale won with 7 1-2 seconds to 4 1-2 seconds. The American Collegians were favored to win the meet in 1927 at London but Oxford and Cambridge developed unexpected strength and won 7-3.FRESHMAN CAPTAIN WHO WON PLACE ON H-Y TEAM E. E. RECORD...