Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snapped the Times. "He has not acted as if he were his own man; scarcely as if he knew his own mind. . . . The fact remains that the best hope of a successful attack upon Tammany lies in the Fusion ticket." The World-Telegram turned furiously on its former champion: "'A plague on ALL bosses!' becomes more than ever the slogan since the McKee decision...
Professor Warren, archfoe of the old gold standard and ardent champion of a managed currency, believes that the dollar must be devaluated until it has a purchasing power equivalent to that of 1926, at which point it would be stabilized in relation to wholesale commodity prices and not to gold. Explains...
...Pacific Southwest Tennis Championship, which for the last five years has been won by the man who wins the U. S. title a year later: his match against Jiro Satoh in the final, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, 7-5; at Los Angeles. Ellsworth Vines lost to Intercollegiate Champion Jack Tidball in the quarterfinals...
...Doncaster, England, the biggest crowd of the year (300,000) saw England's three-year-old champion, Lord Derby's Derby-winner Hyperion, win the St. Leger Stakes by three lengths, with the Aga Khan's Felicitation second. It was the 26th time a Derby winner had won the St. Leger. Hyperion's sire, Gainsborough...
...Chicago, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, fatter and more surly looking than last July when he lost his title to Primo Camera, climbed into a ring opposite clownish young King Levinsky. Thirty seconds after the gong surly Jack Sharkey was flat on his back for a count of seven. Soon his left eye was swollen, he moved groggily. Warming up, Levinsky floundered in fiercely, sometimes wildly beating the air, sometimes carefully beating Sharkey's pate. When Sharkey landed a nasty loin-blow, Levinsky returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump...