Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came to an abrupt end when a motion that the Chamber appoint a commission to investigate L'Affaire Starisky was defeated 360 to 229-the Socialists, who had been verbally lashing the Government, supporting it with their votes. To seal this victory the Left's great champion, M. Edouard Herriot, made a booming plea for a vote of entire confidence in the Government's conduct, put it through 376-10-205, after which the Chamber adjourned. Said Mme Stavisky, after attending the funeral of her husband who was buried with dispatch in Chamonix...
...Fascist presses last week rolled a new pamphlet form of marriage certificate, now being issued to Italian newlyweds. After the names of bride and groom appear twelve blank spaces for the names of their twelve children-a modest estimate, since Il Duce recently gave prizes to 92 "Champion Mothers" with an average of 14 living children apiece (TIME, Jan. 8). Thumbing on through her marriage cer tificate, the Italian bride comes upon these legal reminders: "Matrimony imposes on married couples the reciprocal obligations of cohabitation, faithfulness and assistance (Article 130 of the Civil Code)." "The husband is the head...
...Detroit. Weight: 10 Ib. 8 oz. Engaged. Grace Green Roosevelt, 22, only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., eldest granddaughter of the 26th President of the U. S.; and William McMillan. 28. Baltimore architect, yachtsman, big-game hunter. Engaged. Edith Cummings, 34, one-time (1923) women's national golf champion, equestrienne and big game hunter, last spinster of Chicago's famed Wartime ''Big Four" socialite beauty quartet;* and Curtis B. Munson, 41, War veteran, mining engineer; in Chicago. Married. Aidan Roark, Irish-born po loist, back on last summer's victorious Western team (TIME...
Charlie Peterson of St. Louis, world champion fancy shot billiard artist, will demonstrate some of his uncanny cue feats before members of the Freshman Class in the Union Billiard room at 3 o'clock this afternoon. One of Peterson's well known tricks consists of hitting the ball with enough English so that it strikes one cushion six times. Peterson is lining up college players for the third annual intercollegiate billiard championship, which gets under way early next month...
...More notable was the selection of Chandler Egan, 50-year-old Oregon fruit grower who won his first national amateur championship 30 years ago, dropped out of national play for 20 years, came back strong in 1929. In last year's national amateur he defeated Johnny Goodman, open champion, in the first round of match play. Golf enthusiasts happily anticipated a colorful match between Egan and the British amateur champion, 55-year-old Michael Scott...