Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newfoundland knew him as a fast and furious organizer, a champion of hydro electric development, a statesman who liked to tear over Newfoundland roads in a high-powered car"like Mussolini...
This speech, which created a furor of excitement in the House, showed clearly that Baldwin of Baldwin's Ltd. (iron & steel) will go to Ottawa as the special champion of families which like his own have been leaders in British industry for generations. With the weapon of a tariff threat he will try to force the Dominions to abate their locally popular programs of fostering their own "infant industries...
...goes abroad every year to hunt at Melton Mowbray. His older brothers are Albert C. Bost wick, whose racehorse Mate won the Preakness last year, and Dunbar Bost wick, who played on the Yale polo team which last week beat Harvard 13-to-9 for the intercollegiate champion ship. No self-educated sportsman like Eddie Eagan (see col. 3), Jockey Bost wick inherited a fortune before he left St. Paul's school, then decided not to go to college. Said he : "There is no use sitting in school when one can sit on a horse and go somewhere." When...
...good amateur fighters, Eddie Eagan did not do it. but he trained with famed prizefighters like Mike McTigue, Gene Tunney. Cat-footed, slow and soft of speech, gentle as a St. Bernard, he is recognized and received in social and sporting circles almost as though he had been the Champion...
...that he carried the big championship cup everywhere he went and once, when the top fell off, had to jump out of a taxi to get it. Neat, slick, sunburned, Sarazen was just as pleased last week. When he got a telephone call from Johnny Farrell, U. S. Open champion in 1928, he said: "Oh, boy, am I excited! . . . How are they taking it in New York?" Two days later, carrying the British Open Cup which he said he would defend next year, Sarazen sailed for the U. S. to play in the U. S. Open at Fresh Meadow Country...