Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apostle of Neutrality, has for twelve years been at the top of North Dakota's political heap. But Governor Langer (whom the Federal Government tried, and failed, to jail in 1934 for openly levying on Relief clients for his campaign funds), called a demagogue by his opponents, a champion by his friends, is a potent vote getter. Mr. Langer, once Mr. Nye's good friend, called him a Peace "racketeer," a Washington nonentity who got nothing for his State. Mr. Nye, who has built up his own Progressive Republican machine after surrendering the old Non-Partisan League...
...counting-three, four, five-over the dazed challenger as a towel came sailing into the ring. Picking up the towel (an outmoded symbol of surrender, now illegal in New York State), the referee threw it out of the ring, stopped the fight-a victory on a technical knockout for Champion Louis...
...When Champion Joe Louis and Challenger Max Schmeling came out of their corners to begin the first round of their fight last week, radio listeners in both the Americas and in Europe expected to hear several rounds of fighting, a half hour or more of broadcasting...
Uncompensated loss was Blow-by-blower Clem McCarthy's. The loss: his poise. Son of an auctioneer and veterinary dentist, he is vociferous, deft-tongued, sportswise by inheritance, has a record of 244 words a minute. Still warming to his work when Champion Louis had finished his, Ringsider McCarthy was reduced to dithering bewilderment. His most absurd dither: "This is the shortest fight on record wherein a title changed hands...
Died. James Weldon Johnson, 67, famed Negro educator, author (Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man), champion of Negro rights; of injuries sustained when his automobile struck a train; in Wiscasset, Me. Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1916-30), he was also the first Negro to hold a consular post (Puerto Cabello, Venezuela); only Negro in the U. S. ever to command a naval detachment (Nicaragua 1912) ; first Negro baseball pitcher to throw a curve...