Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor from 1923 to 1929. George White has been Governor since 1931. Last week these three potent Democrats were at odds over who should oppose standpat Republican Simeon Fess for his Senate seat. Messrs. Donahey and White were both candidates for the Democratic nomination, Governor White campaigning as champion of the New Deal, "Vic" Donahey, lukewarm on New Deal policies, rounding up votes among his old friends, Ohio's farmers. After the campaign was under way Mr. Cox and Senator Bulkley jumped in with what they called "the choice of the Administration"?Representative Charles West. Three-cornered the battle...
This week will be held the 65th running of the $25,000 Travers Stakes, oldest horse-race in the U. S. When the Saratoga meeting opened, it looked as if the Travers would bring together Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's 3-year-old champion Cavalcade and Joseph E. Widener's Peace Chance, winner of the Belmont Stakes. These horses have not met since the Kentucky Derby. Last fortnight Peace Chance was withdrawn because of a wrenched knee. Last week Cavalcade was disappointingly scratched also, when his trainer decided a bruise on his right front foot would not heal in time...
Born. To Hannah Williams Dempsey, 23, and William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 39, onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion: a daughter, Joan; in Manhattan. Weight...
...Shaw comes from New Orleans where he was once a champion bicycle racer. Nearing 60, he has grey hair, a ruddy face, a diamond stickpin in his tie. He is the only bookmaker in the East, as Tom Kearney of St. Louis is the only one in the West, to make a winter book on the Kentucky Derby. He owns a stable of six or seven horses, races them in the name of his lawyer John J. Robinson. His headquarters on Broadway are listed as a real-estate office. He began making books in New York...
...Wood could beat England's World Champion Frederick J. Perry or if Shields could beat England's No. 2 dapper little Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, the U. S. had a fine chance to win the Davis Cup for the first time in eight years. In the other three matches, it was agreed that George Lott and Lester Stoefen could scarcely fail to demolish any doubles team England could put on the court; that Wood would probably beat Austin; and that Perry would certainly beat Shields. The draw scheduled both crucial singles matches for the first...