Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they stayed outside to picket. Meanwhile in another corner of the campus the radical American Student Union planned to hold a mass meeting, incite Columbia students to strike from their classes unless Dr. Butler and Dean Herbert Hawkes reinstated Junior Robert Burke. The University's 160-pound boxing champion and president-elect of the Junior class, Ohioan Burke was expelled last spring for picketing a dinner party at Dr. Butler's house after Columbia accepted an invitation to attend Nazi Heidelberg's Jubilee (TIME, March...
...been out of the Yankee lineup for a single day. When he started a string of consecutive games played which is now almost 500 more than any other ever compiled by a major-league baseballer, crossword puzzles were beginning to catch on, Jack Dempsey was world's heavyweight champion, Calvin Coolidge was President and Manhattan's Jimmy Walker was still a State Senator. Last week, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia presented Lou Gehrig with a scroll for having played in his 1,800th consecutive game...
Since the days when its left-handed Lew Tendler used to fight Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard so regularly that the names of the two fighters sounded like the title of a corporation, Philadelphia has always had at least one first-rate functioning fighter of one sort or another. Tendler, now a 180-lb. restaurateur, is the manager of Philadelphia's latest pugilistic hope, a large blond Italian named Al Ettore. Without fighting much outside his home town, Ettore had by last summer managed to get enough local following to justify a bout with famed Joe Louis, who is trying...
Adams, Kirkland, and the champion Winthrop Puritans showed the largest turnouts, with others not far behind...
...office, gives away his whole line of attack as insincere. Instead of allowing the organization to improve, if elected he would be only too glad to thaw out the present incumbents in favor of his own supporters. For such a man to sit on a pedestal as a champion of reform can hardly capture the confidence of the American people, or their voted...