Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida Keys. But it was Florida's senior Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, to whom the President owed much gratitude for important New Deal service in the chairmanship of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, who got credit for selling the idea at the White House and who became its champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate in 1909, the 77-year-old son of Captain Thomas Jefferson Fletcher, C.S.A., was gravely dismayed when Michigan's Vandenberg last winter convinced the Senate that his latest & greatest project was not only useless but dangerous...
...year ago when, a raw but talented young fisticuffer eight months out of the amateur class, he defeated a worn trial horse named Natie Brown. Prizefight reporters, hero worshippers by nature and naturally gullible, promptly hailed Louis, as they had hailed dozens of other promising fighters, as a coming champion. Louis failed to belie his billing as promptly as his predecessors. Matched with Primo Camera, tottering but still formidable, he won by a knockout in the sixth round...
...Irene Castle McLaughlin, famed pre-War dancer who has become Chicago's most militant champion of abused animals, sailed for Europe last week. Few days later, to advertise his firm's Ideal Dog Food, President Thomas E. Wilson of meatpacking Wilson & Co. unveiled on Michigan Boulevard a billboard containing six live Boston terriers...
...offer. Baltusrol's Upper course-entirely distinct from the Lower, where the Amateur was played ten years ago-proved unexpectedly easy. Fourteen scores were under par 72. After two rounds, the field was cut to the low 60. Seventeen golfers tied for 60th with 151. Defending Champion Sam Parks, who profited less from his title than any other Open winner since the War, was eliminated with a score...
...Last week a new poet struck his lyre, and to ears that could remember echoes, the minor strains were far older than Ruskin. Not so much for his gently conventional verse as for his U. S. background was Poet Lionel Wiggam notable. Twenty-year-old son of a welterweight champion and a farmer's daughter, he entered Northwestern University at 15, left to play in a stock company, hang wallpaper, work on a road-gang, as a janitor; went back to college on a scholarship when his poems began to be published. Meantime he was leading a literary double...