Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellows in every nook and corner of the nation. ... It will mean increased revenue in the form of taxes to the Government. Mr. Hoover is misguided. . . . If he counts noses he'll find 90% to 95%, of the Legionaires are in favor of this legislation." Another red-hot champion of the Bonus is small, fuzzy-headed Congressman John Elliott Rankin of Mississippi, chairman of the House Veterans Committee. Last week he gave the country this advice: "Unless we inflate the currency and restore commodity values, we'll have a deficit next year and the next...
...Patents & Copyrights, he long sought copyright protection for artists, writers, composers. Last year he saw his bill, providing copyright automatically upon creation, die in the Senate because of the one-man filibuster of Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas on another issue. Runner-up for the 1930 title of "Champion Horseshoe Pitcher of Congress," he defeated his Democratic opponent in the last Congressional election by nine votes. Died. Frederick Benjamin Haviland, 63, music publisher; of pneumonia developed from influenza; in Manhattan. Learning the business from the late Oliver Ditson, he founded a firm with the late Songwriter Paul Dresser...
Both of the others are government officials. Gustave Van Belle, Commissioner of Roads & Bridges in Flanders, is a slim, diffident man with thin legs and a reddish face. He has been world champion three times, won many an international tournament with his artful sidearm stroke. Long-nosed Albert Poensgen, a onetime jurist and now a well-paid employe in Berlin's Ministry of Finance, is considered by his confreres to be the luckiest player in the world as well as one of the best. At 51 he has been playing in international tournaments for 21 years, won the world...
...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex.: the Houston Invitation Tennis Tournament, Dealing Jack Hess (8-6, 6-3, 6-2) in the final. The two highest ranking players in the U. S.?Champion Ellsworth Vines and George Lott Jr.?were beaten by obscure players in the second and third rounds...
...Building and nucleus of his holding company, Starrett Corp. As chairman of the War Industries Board's construction committee, Builder Starrett directed the erection of all cantonments, hospitals. Army bases in the U. S. To Japan he introduced special teel frame buildings designed to resist arthquakes. An articulate champion of all structures, he wrote Skyscrapers and he Men Who Build Them...