Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mississippi's Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, still champion of white supremacy at 68, had an important communiqué for the waiting world. He smoothed his bright red necktie, adjusted the diamond horseshoe stickpin that he bought for $92.50 at a 1916 auction. Then he announced...
...father's for Christmas in Whitman, Mass. Asked if his appointment made this his happiest homecoming, he said: "The happiest was the day I came home ordained after five years away and said Mass for my father and mother." The onetime grocer's boy and champion horseshoe pitcher, now the able and beloved shepherd of Catholicism's richest archdiocese, is one of Pius XII's closest friends, served under him in Rome. He may become Vatican Secretary of State...
Coach Stahl will probably start the same quintet which edged out Tufts 52 to 48 in the last game before the Christmas recess. The lineup: Wyndol Gray and John Gautt, forwards; Lou Decsi, center; Saul Mariaschin and Paul Champion, guards...
...agree upon a thorough ten-year test. Let us begin promptly to join together-government, labor, business and agriculture-and to do everything possible to champion and encourage and develop the basic American system...
...summary: HARVARD G> F> T.P. Clark, r.f. 1 0 2 Gray, l.f. 2 0 4 Mariaschin, r.g. 3 3 9 Champion, l.g. 1 0 2 Desci, c. 3 3 9 Davis, g. 1 0 2 Gantt, f. 5 1 11 McDermott...