Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Madison Ministerial Association, which furnishes most of the Senate's praying parsons, formally resolved : "We cannot participate in this duty as chaplains unless we are assured of freedom. . . ." Promptly lest the Senate's supply of supplication dry up, the Chief Clerk put Mr. Eddy back on the active list...
During the civil war the paper was in Republican hands, but the founder's son, Don Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, continued to publish a Monarchist A. B. C. in Seville. When Franco took Madrid, Don Juan Ignacio got his paper back and immediately began publishing it in the old way: calling for the restoration of Alfonso. Franco tried to get rid of Luca de Tena by offering him an embassy, but Don Juan Ignacio refused. Last month A. B. C. published a defiant pro-Monarchist editorial. Next thing its readers knew, it had encountered a "shortage of paper...
...Jedrzejowska and Denmark's Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, defeated England's Kay Stammers, 6-2, 6-0, with the most brilliant tennis of the whole tournament. While 18,000 excited spectators compared Miss Marble to the late great Suzanne Lenglen, the new champion came back to the centre court to win the women's doubles (with Sarah Palfrey Fabyan) and the mixed doubles (with Bobby Riggs). Riggs & Cooke took the men's doubles to make a clean sweep of all fiveWimbledon titles...
...whiskey business, Restaurateur Jack Dempsey was recuperating from an appendectomy, Babe Ruth was looking for a manager's job in the major leagues, Bobby Jones was an aging, paunchy Atlanta lawyer, Paavo Nurmi was managing a tidy fortune invested in Finnish real estate. Having accepted a back seat or had it thrust upon them, none of these once-great sporting figures was much more than a brave memory...
...Sonja Henie's life, according to other people is her unmarried state. Her friends contend that her most publicized "romance," with Tyrone Power, was just that. Her less publicized friendship for Jeff Dickson* ended when she left Europe for the U. S. in 1936. She gave him back his jewelry. Her parents regarded with approval middle-aged Clifford Jeapes (pronounced Geeps), British cinemagnate who gave Sonja her first (unsuccessful) screen test. Romantic friends incline to the belief that the only man Sonja Henie has ever really been interested in was Jack Dunn, the handsome 19-year-old Cambridge undergraduate...