Word: champ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astonishing misapprehension of Senators Robinson, Byrnes & Harrison was typical of the confusion which prevailed in Washington last week after the first shock of the President's proposal had passed. California's Hiram Johnson, Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark and Montana's Burton K. Wheeler made up their minds against the plan. But after the first quick division for & against, the 30-odd remaining Senators who held the balance of power were lying low, waiting to see how the wind blew. Letters from constituents and memorials from State Legislatures were mostly pro-Court, but there were enough...
Appointed House Parliamentarian by his father, the late Speaker Charles Frederick Crisp, and by the late Speaker Champ Clark, he wrote the standard Manual & Digest of the Rules of the House of Representatives...
...refusing to make personal appearances to encourage the sale of "Old Champ" liniment. Negro Pugilist Jack Johnson was sued for $360.96 damages by his partner, Morris Botwen. Boxer Johnson declared the liniment Partner Botwen was marketing was not the same good "Old Champ" he had given friends for years to "cure toothaches, headaches or any other kind of ache...
...LICKS CHAMP," a shot of a husky dancer clamping a leg lock on a wrestler's neck; "SHIP WRECKED!" with a preview of drowned bodies cast...
...father and that statesman's predecessor as Speaker of the House. Thomas B. ("Tsar") Reed. When Speaker Reed was contesting with William McKinley for the GOPresidential nomination in 1896, Congressman Clark met him one day, asked: "Mr. Speaker, are you going to get the nomination?" Replied Reed: "Why, Champ, I think they might go farther and fare worse, and I think they will...