Word: champ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the over-all per capita figure set at 35 cents, other honors also went to the river-dwellers as Leverett accumulated $176.40 and Winthrop took third place with $122.80. The ex-champ Deacons, whose purchases dropped to $41.30, were fourth, and other Houses followed in this order: Adams, $35.15; Lowell, $30.25; and Eliot...
...participation in any international peace-enforcement organization at this time, only 24 definitely committing themselves in favor of the proposal. The Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution, substantially the same as the above measure, faces an additional obstacle in the formidable machinations of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which includes Champ Clark, Hiram Johnson, Capper, LaFollette, Vandenberg, Nye and Shipstead on its roster...
...Little Steel wage formula with a $2-a-day raise for his men and to torpedo WLB (as he had sunk its predecessor, the National Defense Mediation Board). But what he was really after was a showdown with the President. John Lewis is not at all afraid of the Champ; the Champ, after years of trial bouts, is not so keen for the battle...
Last week John L. took on the Champ in a minor, preliminary bout: U.M.W. strikers (members of his catch-all District 50) went back to work at Celanese Corp.'s big plant in Newark. Carefully they proclaimed that they had won a "Victory" because the President himself had stepped into the fracas, ordered their return. But last week, as WLB took over his big show, John L. was not at the coal hearings: he was ensconced in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, holding a watch on the White House and ticking off the hours until his May i deadline...
Captain Don MacKinnon and IC4A hammer-throw champ Willo Fisher accounted for four of the Crimson trackmen's nine firsts Saturday as the Mikkolamen ran off with an 81-54 victory over Tufts on Soldiers Field...