Word: champ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This glorious establishment that has gone unsung is located at 156 Canal Street, less than two blocks from the Boston Garden, and who is the proprietor but Squire Jack Sharkey, former heavyweight champ of the world and the pride of Chestnut Hill. The bar stretches to the unbelievable length of 145 feet, and in the smoky haze that pervades the place it is impossible to see from one end to the other...
...pictures, "In This Corner. . .", a glimpse of a negro welterweight hunched on his stool under the shadow of his handlers while the referee howls out the announcements, and "The Neighborhood Champ," a picture of an ugly plug climbing into the ring while his uglier friends cheer, deserve especial attention. Mr. Riggs has succeeded in catching excellently the impact of the environment on the different personalities, the tenseness of the fighters, the nonchalance of the handlers, and the exhibitionism of the referee...
...product of a political deal insofar as the nomination was concerned. But had it not been for Arthur Mullen's keen management of the Roosevelt strategy there might have been a collapse of the Roosevelt delegations. For the moment they started deserting it would have been like the champ Clark ascendency in 1912, when his followers had achieved a majority but Wilson came from behind and won the nomination
Senate. In the Senate the stampede was started by sly, fleshy Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri. A Democrat, son of a great Democrat, but also an American Legion founder, Senator Clark had fought the President tooth & nail on the Economy Bill, which cut veterans' pensions, at the special session. He now prepared to discomfit the President by introducing an amendment to the liquor tax bill providing an extra excise on wines & liquors imported from War debt defaulting nations. Leaping at the chance to sound off on their pet hate, debt defaulters. Senate Democrats and Republicans alike began to line...
...plumped against the St. Lawrence waterway lest it give North Central Farmers an advantage in world trade and reduce tonnage down the Mississippi to the Gulf and to Europe. "Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge did not favor the internationalization of Lake Michigan!" stormed Missouri's young Senator Bennett Champ Clark...