Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Charity Air Pageant held last week at Roosevelt Field, L. I. was far from being "the greatest air race in history," as its pressagents shouted, but it packed into two days more spectacular flying than the East had seen in many a year; and it produced an amateur champion airman and airwoman...
...Maneuvering contest to pick the champion amateur aviator & aviatrix of the U. S. Prizes: $5,000 each...
...outworn heavyweights was due for immediate oblivion. Loughran, a quiet, well-liked fellow, had never been a powerful threat in the ring since he stepped up from the light-heavyweight class. Sharkey knocked him out four years ago. And now talkative, wealthy Sharkey, only three months ago the champion, had left his last claim to importance on the floor of a Chicago ring where King Levinsky knocked him last month (TIME, Sept...
...motorcycling to a hospital to see his wife and two-week-old baby when an automobile sideswiped him. He suffered a crushed pelvis, had to have his left foot amputated. Last fortnight he fought his 340th and final fight at Houston, getting a newspaper decision over Light-heavyweight Champion Maxie Rosenbloom...
...late Dwight Bancroft Heard brought the Republic (then the Republican, a "progressive independent newspaper") into affluence, willed a large block of stock to his favorite employe, Charles A. Stauffer who, with Mrs. Heard, later purchased the Gazette. Since Publisher Heard's death, the Republic has ceased to champion any cause except the 18th Amendment...