Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...metropolis. This respected paladin from Pennsylvania is of course Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. Last week the War Department ordered General Butler to hasten to Shanghai and there take command of the 3,000 U. S. marines who may soon be fighting a modern Boxer Campaign...
General Butler was a lieutenant of marines during the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1902). At that time the expeditionary forces of the Great Powers were fighting the Chinese in close co-operation-so close that the cry "Blood is thicker than water!" reputedly was voiced for the first time by a U. S. combatant rushing to aid some hard pressed Britishers. (The phrase had, however, been heard in the 17th Century...
Died. Harry ("Berg") Berglund, 21, Minneapolis light heavyweight boxer; in Minneapolis; of a fall received from a blow in his first professional bout. His death was the second in two days from boxing, the other being that of Charles Pegulihan, French light heavyweight; in Hartford, Conn...
...earnest young man who was working his way through Stanford University. They were married, and her name became Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover. She followed her husband to the ends of the earth. In China, in 1900, they lived for six weeks behind a barricade of sugar barrels and sandbags (Boxer Rebellion). Together they translated from medieval Latin the first work ever written on mining. In England, she brought up two sons in a home which became a rendezvous for U. S. citizens. And a few years ago she was content that her husband should become perhaps the busiest...
Died. Harry Greb, 32, onetime (1923-26) world champion middle-weight boxer; sole man to defeat (1922) James John ("Gene") Tunney; at Atlantic City; of heart failure, following an operation on the nose...