Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lonely, stubborn champion of "volun-tary" war bond sales, Henry Morgenthau last week saw ominous clouds of opposition gathering. Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve, Harold Smith of the Budget Bureau, Leon Henderson of OPA had ganged up against him, to champion forced savings. So Henry the Morgue pondered his own dozen schemes for raising money the voluntary way and took stock of results to date. In the twelve months to the end of April, the Federal debt had increased $17 billions. That was a fair measure of Henry's success in selling Treasury securities. Only...
Private Billy Conn, ex-light-heavyweight champion slated to fight Joe Jouis in June for the title, paid a call on father-in-law Jimmy Smith in Pittsburgh. A friend, Conn said later, had told him Smith wanted to bury the hatchet. Instead, the fur flew. Conn left his father-in-law's house with a broken hand. "Smith asked me if I was afraid of him," he explained. "I told him I wasn't afraid of anybody. Then it started." Conn went back to camp with his hand in a cast, his face scratched, his bout with...
Married. Cinecomedian Charles Ruggles, 50; and Marian La Barba, 38; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Her previous husbands: ex-Flyweight Champion Fidel La Barba, Cartoonist Billy De Beck (Barney Google...
George Hurd, Jr. '42, University sculling champion, and coach of the Boston University crew, will leave for the Navy soon. He has been coaching the Terriers since last fall...
...tuneup for the Yale match, the Freshman tennis team lost 5 to 4 to a very good Exeter squad yesterday. Yardling John Zinsser pulled a great upset in downing Oliver Moses, interscholastic champion who had never before been beaten...