Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anent the recent discussion in TIME as to who is the post-mortem champion of the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 17), I have been waiting for someone to nominate Dr. Adolphus Berger, post-mortem surgeon for the County of San Francisco...
...Tried to ignore the clamoring, rioting unemployed but had to listen to their parliamentary champion, "Grandpa" George Lansbury, Leader of the Labor Party, who shouted, "I demand that the damnable 'means test'* be abolished and every man given a chance of decent existence...
...eleventh birthday approached last week, his mother Princess Helen (who is estranged from King Carol and lives in London) traveled to Rumania. At the frontier she was met by the Rumanian Train and brought secretly to a suburban royal villa without entering Bucharest. Possibly Dr. Maniu, always a stanch champion of Princess Helen, will manage to patch things up. When he broke with the King two years ago Citizen Maniu reputedly said: "Sire, you can never be crowned unless the mother of Prince Mihai is crowned as Queen by your side...
...Champion...
...meet this afternoon is expected to be close, since all three teams have been beaten once by strong opponents. Yale was defeated by a Cornell team which included runners such as Mangan, the intercollegiate mile champion; Princeton lost to Columbia by only one point in a close race over the Van Cortland Park course; and Harvard last Friday lost to the New Hampshire harriers, who were the New England champions in 1931. Princeton will have a slight advantage in the race since their runners know their own course. The two chief contenders for first place will be Arthur Foote...