Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Machine Workers of America. Having curried labor votes by declaring martial law and shutting down Maytag as the strikers wished, he last week twirled around, permitted Maytag to reopen on Maytag terms and under State guard. The Governor simultaneously weaseled out of his role as a States' Rights champion (TIME, Aug. 8). He amended his order forbidding NLRB to continue its Maytag inquiry anywhere in "the military district of Iowa," allowed the hearings to reopen at Des Moines, 30-odd miles from troubled Newton...
...direct descendant of any of the Barons at Runnymede is Lord Runciman. His father was a cabin boy who made himself one of Britain's shipping tycoons. As a businessman, keen Son Runciman added to the vast family fortune and prestige. Before the War, he was an outspoken champion of peace between Britain and Germany, delivered a public rebuke to Lord Roberts for having in a preparedness speech called war between them "inevitable...
...Winner: curly-haired Johnny Revolta of Evanston, Ill., onetime (1935) P.G.A. champion, with a score of 276 (69, 68, 71, 68)-twelve under...
...Beer-drinking, 230-lb. Tony Galento, No. 1 contender for the world's heavyweight boxing title: an unscheduled fight against pneumonia, contracted while a teetotaler at training camp five days before a scheduled fight with Light Heavyweight Champion John Henry Lewis; after three blood transfusions and five days under an oxygen tent; at Orange, N. J. When told that his blood transfusions were injections of salt, impatient Tony, tired of being flat on his back with "this ammonia," growled: "Why can't Mary [his wife] put the salt in the soup instead of punching me full of holes...
Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue). Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers defends his title against Welter and Featherweight Champion Henry Armstrong at Manhattan's Polo Grounds...