Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman's job would be grinding. Fortnight ago new threats against New Deal leadership again cropped up. Alabama's Governor Frank M. Dixon, champion of "white supremacy," called for a secession of Southern Democrats. In Omaha, Democratic leaders of nine Midwestern States organized a "united farm front"-without consulting top party chiefs. Onetime Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, one of the few top officials ever fired by Franklin Roosevelt, sounded off for a new "agrarian party...
...Champion Ned Day has practically retired from tournament play. In partnership with Comedian Harold Lloyd (Hollywood's best bowler) and onetime Champion Hank Marino, Day operates a profitable "bowling establishment" at Santa Monica, Calif., within earshot of Douglas Aircraft war workers. But to help swell the gate receipts of this year's All-Star Bowling Tournament (for the benefit of Chicago's Service Men's Center), Champion Day was persuaded to defend his title once more before entering the Navy -not only against Challenger Crimmins but against the ten highest scorers among the 100 All-Star...
...strategy that will lead it to 1944. The unanimity with which he had been chosen was synthetic; the harmony which he is supposed to stand for will be, at best, ersatz. For Mr. Spangler knew, as Willkie knew and as the Chicago Tribune knew, that no mere middle-course champion of compromise could ever span the gap within the party: between the Willkie wing and the extreme isolationist symbolized by Schroeder and Colonel McCormick's Tribune...
...leading low-scorer the past three years (now a civilian aviation student); Byron Nelson, always close on his heels (denied his plane transportation from Texas at the last moment); Sam Snead, most idolized of U.S. pros (now a third-class seaman in the Navy); and Craig Wood, National Open champion (now a captain in the Marines...
Round, bald Catalan Pablo Casals, world's top cellist, outspoken anti-Nazi champion of the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, was reported arrested in southern France, turned over to Franco's authorities...