Word: babes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professional Championship, did not even qualify. Josef Paul Cuckoschay (Jack Sharkey) of Boston retrieved the world's heavyweight boxing championship for the U. S. from Germany's Maximilian Adolf Otto Siegfried Schmeling in a bout that satisfied few patrons. All-around athlete of 1932 was Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson of Dallas who scored more individual points in the Olympics than any other participant. Last week Miss Didrikson turned professional...
...baby was in good health. But suddenly, said Miss Sullivan later, ". . . They made us understand she had little chance of recovery. They also said she looked so delicate we had better not pick her up. [Next morning] the hospital called up and said the baby had died." Another newborn babe died that morning, a third the day after. The parents did not find out why until they read about it in the newspapers. All three babies had been suffering from dehydration, were unable to take water by mouth because of vomiting. Subcutaneous injections of about a tumblerful of saline solution...
...field championships in Evanston last summer, a lean, rangy, dark-haired girl from Dallas, Tex. won six first places. She amassed for her team-of which she was the only member-a total of 30 points, to 20 points for a team of 22 which finished second. Overnight Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, a typist for Dallas Employers' Casualty Co., had become a national sports figure. At the Olympic Games two weeks later she won two first prizes (javelin throw, 80-meter hurdles), a second in the high-jump when her best jump was disqualified for ''diving." She complained...
...insurance written this year (23.7% below 1929). $1,924,666,000-paid on death claims since 1929. $2,048,000,000-the amount of policy loans since 1929 (now 18.4% of assets). Good news was the fact that the average expectancy of life of a newborn U. S. babe is now 60 years, up five whole years from 1922. While the insurance presidents were hearing these figures a plan was being shaped which may elevate a newcomer to power in the industry. He is Julius Howland Barnes, close friend and onetime business partner of Herbert Clark Hoover. Everybody knew...
Sentenced. Jean Martin, burlesque showgirl: to an indeterminate sentence in Bedford Reformatory for strangling her roommate, Showgirl Florence ("Babe") Miller, to death with her hands; in Manhattan...