Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the pen of snowy-haired Ramsay MacDonald, champion shaker-of-hands-across-the-sea, and Prime Minister of Great Britain, has issued a statement in which diplomacy blends with astute perception. The shrewd Scot, who by a graceful and masterly manipulation of Anglo-Saxon heartstrings, by an incomparably dexterous muddling of issues, reached the pinnacle position of British statecraft, displays in his written comment the same piercing analysis and tempered sagacity which gained him his high post...
...Press last week breathed no such denunciation as at Adolf Hitler's "blood purge." In Moscow the U. S. Embassy sent expressions of sorrow at the assassination of Comrade Kirov, Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei." In Washington, however, Senator William Edgar Borah, longtime champion for recognition of the Soviet Union, boomed: "As far as I can determine, from the few facts I have been able to get, these executions were wholly unjustifiable and indefensible...
...Hoyt has a world-wide reputation as the leading poodle breeder of the U. S. Her Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen is one of the greatest in the world, champion of Switzerland, France, England, the U. S. While the socialites stood around, Mrs. Hoyt told how her prize poodle last winter had dragged his mistress on snowshoes all the way from her Katonah home to the New York Central railroad station in order to get to Boston in time to win another championship...
...biggest news of last week's Exposition was not these prizes, not the new Temple, not the fact that Edward of Wales's Alberta herd of Shorthorns was better than usual, not the celebration of Walter Biggar's 10th anniversary as judge of the grand champion steer but the fact that a comparative upstart breed of beef cattle had reached a stock show eminence never before attained...
...interbreed classes: best 4-H steer (raised by junior farmers), best steer, best herd (of three), best carlot, best get-of-sire (three by the same bull), best carcass. Anguses took a total of ten top carcass prizes in both light and heavy classes. Named Grand Champion Steer?foremost prize of the show?was Campus Idol, a black raised on Iowa State College's farm, whence had come, in former years, four other Grand Champions. Two days later Campus Idol was prodded out of the Temple's doors, auctioned off to Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. at $3 for each & every...