Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guests of his Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights* examples of Nazi tricks to evade the boycott. On a glove wrathfully displayed by Lawyer Untermyer the words "Made in Germany" appear only on the inner surface of one finger tip. Holding up a doll, Boycotter Untermyer cried : "You have to undress this lady to determine the country of her origin. That is not very nice. The stamp 'Made in Germany' is under her dress. Such tactics are smuggling!" To put the anti-Nazi efforts further on a non-sectarian plane, Gentile James G. McDonald...
Holding a meeting to discuss immediate ski plans, the ski squad recently decided to have it first outing Sunday on Uncanoonuc Mountain, near Manchester, New Hampshire. The men met at the Varsity Club and were addressed by Charles N. Proctor, former Olympic champion, who is to have charge of the coaching...
Hitherto Il Duce has stressed quantity. No beauties were 92 women whom he feted fortnight ago in his lofty Palazzo Venezia. They were "champion mothers," the pride of Italy, with an average of 14 living children apiece-a total approximating that of an Italian infantry regiment. To each mother Il Duce gave a fat money prize, though three were women of wealth. They had already received the Government's regular bonus of 500 lire for every child born after the seventh...
Neither the deathly plight of a Houston baby with water on the brain, nor a speedy flight by Air-Champion James R. Wedell, nor an operation by Johns Hopkins' Brain Surgeon Walter Edward Dandy is in itself important news. But the combination of all three last week on the front page of the nation's Press gave the country a stirring drama of death defeated by human effort...
...game in two innings during the national championship, Kelly was so gloomy over his chances against Greenleaf that he went outside for a smoke in the 14th inning. After he re turned, Greenleaf scratched. Taking ad vantage of the break, Kelly fought into the lead, held the defending champion off until the 25th inning, finally took the game with a run of 13. (125-10-85.) It was the first game Greenleaf had lost in three years of championship play. All but two other opponents found him an easy mark. To pool enthusiasts the spectacle was pitiful, particularly the after...