Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Insurance Co., only Negro life company licensed to do business under New York State's strict insurance laws. Engineered by his able, honest managers, the election of the world's best black boxer to the Victory board was not primarily dictated by a desire for the benefit of his business judgment, any more than was Herbert Hoover's election to the board of New York Life. Among certain groups of U. S. insurance prospects both names carry considerable weight...
...referee stopped the contest in the third round, after Wells had gone down for a count of seven from a hard blow on the chin dealt him by the Crimson boxer...
...hearts than Warlord Sung. He is Yao Chen-yuan, 80-year-old Chinese Christian, sole known survivor of the four native messengers who got through (and the dozen who didn't) with messages to Tientsin asking relief for the besieged legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion. Disguised as a beggar, Yao made the 90-mile trip on foot through country overrun with Boxers who were killing every Christian-Chinese or foreign-they could find. Captured many times, Yao always talked himself out. For his heroism Yao was offered a copper medal and later a reward...
Last week in Milwaukee Fancier Wagner, head of Dorian von Marienhof of Mazelaine, Inc., announced that his company had sold 1,000 shares to 200 shareholders, most of them apparently persons who felt that by helping to publicize Boxer von Marienhof, they might also help to publicize themselves. Among them were Dancer Sally Rand, Comedian Jack Pearl, Song Writer George Whiting. Fancier Wagner said he expected stud fees and show winnings to pay stockholders a 100% dividend...
Almost but not quite so ugly as English bulldogs, boxers are a German improvisation arrived at by combining terriers, continental bulldogs and mastiffs. In Germany there are some 10,000 boxers, so named because when fighting they sometimes try to punch with their front paws. They are rivals to Doberman Pinschers in police work, popular as pets. By winning first prize in every show in which he has appeared, having himself declared "faultless" by Germany's best boxer judges, Dorian von Marienhof made it clear by the time he was 2 that he was the best boxer in Germany...