Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even when Medalist Orcutt and U. S. Champion Helen Hicks lost their first round matches (TIME, June 6) three of the ablest women players in the U. S. were left in the tournament. But Glenna Collett Vare lost to the defending champion, Enid Wilson, while Virginia Van Wie was getting beaten by Susie Tolhurst, champion of Australia, in an amazing match that ended on the 210-yd. 19th hole. Miss Van Wie took 8 to her opponent's 6. That left only Mrs. Leona Pressler Cheney of Los Angeles, who started to play golf seven years ago when...
With an estimated 45 votes behind him, Massachusetts' Walsh, never before a Sales Tax champion, suddenly brought forth a measure to make the second-class postal increase unnecessary (a bid for Press support) and tax all manufacturers alike. He proposed a 1.75%, general manufacturers sales tax, conservatively estimated to yield $325,000,000, the law to expire July 1, 1934. Exempt would be food, cheap clothing, agricultural products, workmen's tools, tobacco, nonproprietary medicines, periodicals...
...potent swordsman is Architect William Hamilton Russell. When not designing country houses for tycoons in Newport, Islip and Wheatley Hills, he represents the U. S. on international fencing teams. He was U. S. champion in 1916, 1919, 1923. He was on the Olympic Team at Antwerp in 1920 and Paris in 1924. Last week he exhibited a whole case full of medals and a gold-plated rapier from his admirers in the Fencers' Club...
...rests with the Supreme Court. As Chief Justice Hughes once said, "We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges make it." Brandeis has become identified with the so-called liberal element in the Court, but his philosophy of government is his own. He is a champion of labor and liberal toward industry. He defends the existing division of powers between the states and the federal government because he considers the states ideal laboratories for testing experiments in government...
...among the members of the Liberal Club who have been called "dissenters", the members of the Inquiry already number many more who have never been connected with the Liberal Club. Furthermore, it is the intention of the organizers to keep the two entirely separate. The Liberal Club exists to champion the civic virtues of free speech and academic freedom, to esponse unpopular causes, and to dramatize occasional controversial issues as they arise. The Inquiry, however, is being formed to investigate the political and economic conditions which call for change, to seek understanding rather than action, to discuss rather than demonstrate...