Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sidney Hillman, strong boy of U.S. labor and champion of the common man, now visiting London to help make plans for a world trade-union conference in February, bunked in at swank Claridge's Hotel in London, where he found that two of his fellow guests were King George II of Greece, King Peter II of Yugoslavia...
...worth noting. . . . Production remained at a fairly steady level of three litters a year . . . averaging 2% kittens a litter. . . . This is regarded as a war effort far exceeding that of. any other belligerent cat in the Allied camp and may be favorably compared to the output of Katinka Pusskin, champion mother cat of Russia and Heroine of the Soviet Union...
...lightweight boxing champion in school, he had one outstanding qualification for his job: a contagious fighting spirit. To Colonel Zemke, one of the truly great fighter commanders of World War II, there was only one unforgivable mistake: "To let a Hun get away is a criminal offense. It's a worse blunder than getting shot up yourself...
Captain Joseph ("Joe") Gould, 48, cigar-mangling peacetime prizefight manager, whose most famed charge was ex-Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock, went down for the count before an Army general court-martial. He was found guilty, as an Army contract officer, of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of $200,000 on Army contracts, sentenced to three years at hard labor, a $12,000 fine and dismissal from the service. Said one of his associates along "Jacob's Beach," hoary Manhattan rendezvous for the pugilistic trade: "He never should of done it during...
Last week the Philadelphians met and passed their big test. They went through, around and over Ex-champion Washington's spongy line for a lopsided 37-to-7 victory. In Frank Filchock, who pitches a sidearm looping ball with deadly accuracy, the Redskins had the league's best passer with a .593 average. But the Washington line caved in. Their prize passer was hard rushed, spent most of the afternoon sitting down...