Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, 13 months before he was to defend his Presidential title against an as yet unnamed Republican challenger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt jogged out of Washington for a 3,000-mile stretch of political roadwork. The odds, while narrowing, still favored him. But just as all champions must go barnstorming to keep their names before the fans. Champion Roosevelt felt it was not too early for him. to go through his paces for the benefit of some 50,000,000 voters who will turn thumbs up or down on him in 1936. Simultaneously he could gauge the fitness and morale...
...gave an exciting exhibition of forensic footwork to 500 conferees of the 1935 Mobilization for Human Needs. Two months ago national charitarians had cried "Foul!" when, discussing the tax bill with newshawks, the Champion had scorned corporation gifts to charity as a crass method of buying public goodwill. With an artful shift, the Champion now declared that such donations "must come from all those whose developments have accentuated the congestion and the problems of community life...
Seeded number one, Hunter meets Robert W. Sides '33, former Freshman golfer, while close behind their leader press Lynford Lardner '37, amateur champion of Wisconcin and qualifier for the National Amateurs last summer, and George E. Enos...
...late Ambassador to Great Britain, Judge Hoyt has a famed ancestor. His grandfather, Salmon Portland Chase, whose portrait adorns $10,000 bills, was Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and later (1864-73) Chief Justice of the U. S. Grandson Hoyt has won distinction for himself as a champion and judge of children. In 1908 he became the youngest (31) judge ever appointed to New York's Court of Special Sessions, helped start the fight which led to the adoption of a constitutional amendment creating separate children's courts throughout the State. He was for 18 years presiding justice...
...Irish in Us" is really quite a pleasant experience. While it drags in places through unimaginative treatment, Jimmy Cagney brings much spirit to his performance. He falls in love with his brother's girl and wins her when he substitutes for the challenger in a fight against the middleweight champion. In a battle which had the lady in the seat next to us gripping the arms of the seat in tense anticipation, Jimmy proved that he is an astounding boxer...