Word: broughton
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...Governors' convention in Denver, North Carolina's J. Melville Broughton cracked: "We are going to win the war whether the next President is a Republican, a Democrat or Mr. Willkie...
Died. Major Sir Henry John Delves Broughton, 59, big-game-hunting sportsman whose trial for murder was a Maughamesque midsummer sensation of Kenya Colony in 1941; of undetermined causes; in Liverpool. He was acquitted in the fatal shooting of his handsome friend, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Enroll, with whom Sir Henry's 29-year-old bride had fallen in love...
...Boxing last week got an authoritative bible. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Briton John Broughton's first code of the "squared circle" (later amended by the revised London Prize Ring Rules and the Marquis of Queensberry code), Broadway's dynamic little Nat Fleischer, No. 1 U.S. fistic authority, published the All-Time Ring Record Book...
Case for the Crown is that on the night of the murder, the earl brought Lady Broughton home after Sir Jock had retired, that Sir Jock later climbed out of his bedroom by a balcony or drain pipe, met the earl, killed...
...Crown had been prepared for this defense. Professional Hunter J. A. Hunter testified that three weeks after the murder he had taken Sir Jock and Lady Broughton on an eight-day safari. Said Hunter Hunter: "Sir Delves shot several small antelope. He shot one lion with a heavy double-barreled rifle, . . . walked seven miles a day stalking game, . . . never appeared fatigued. . . . He also helped to pull the dead lions aboard a lorry...