Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure of anything, Champion Roosevelt could count on the National Association of Postmasters being in his corner a year from November. It was a routine prefight precaution for Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, onetime chairman of New York State's Athletic Commission, to appear before the postmasters' Chicago convention last week and assure those loyal jobholders that slurs from the Republican camp against their man were "just plain politics...
...From the Champion's quarters came two cordial invitations to Business to skip rope with him. It was announced that any industry which would like to try NRA again was welcome to apply to George L. Berry, longtime printers' unionist and onetime Blue Eaglet. The United Press also reported that the Administration was seven billion dollars behind its immediate spending program, would soon "issue a revised budget that will give a new, sharper and more glowing picture...
During the Washington workout, the Champion's seconds made only one blunder, but it was an incredibly stupid one. At a Presidential press conference, it was made known that Mr. Roosevelt had broadcast an appeal to the nation's parsons asking for "counsel and advice," especially on "the new social security legislation just enacted." The replies were not expected before the President's return from "a short vacation." But in many a city many a preacher made public his reply even before the Presidential vacation began, and not all replies were characterized by pastoral calm. Most peppery...
...Cubs. In the polls of expert opinion conducted every year before the baseball season starts, the Cubs last spring were generally picked to finish fourth A team composed of young if not untried players they appeared to lack the batting strength of the world champion Cardinals, the pitching of the New York Giants. While the Giants were getting off to a nine-game lead by the Fourth of July the Cubs lived down to their rating in fourth place. In August the Giants went into a sudden decline for the second year in a row and the Cardinals caught...
...Brown Embalmer",* ''One night is not enough to tell." His plans included a world tour, a Chicago apartment home, one fight a month, a chauffeur for the Lincoln car he gave his wife for a wedding present, a bout with Max Schmeling next June, another with Champion James J. Braddock next September...