Word: championed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the District's voteless citizen-advisers beheld the House's handiwork, they sped to the Senate hot with anger. Virginia's Carter Glass promptly announced himself as a champion for scores of thousands of Federal workers not so fortunate as to work for Congress. What the House had done for itself, the Senate could undo. Pending redress, Columnist Raymond Clapper (Scripps-Howard) spoke for other nonimmune D. C. residents in words of measured scorn...
...Nova Scotia's Angler Kenney, apologies. No bumpkin, Champion Kenney is also his town's foremost photographer and baseball pitcher...
...firm notion that falling short of the championship in any endeavor is the equivalent of a complete and final washout. For ten years of marriage he is a father who comes home now & then in the infrequent intervals of his long, confident barnstorming career in pursuit of the champion. By the time his hard-boiled-ego philosophy takes the count in a riproaring, ten-round climax (the film's only fight scene), he has squandered his wife's regard, has never won his son's. In line with proved cinema practice, however, mother and son rally around...
...Chicago, Richard Bogash, whose plump, middle-aged mate, Josephine ("Ma") Bogash, is a roller-skating champion brought a $200,000 suit against the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association and Promoter-Manager Leo Seltzer. Grounds: "In the course of the races there are numerous falls in which the limbs of the plaintiff's wife and other parts of her body are exposed to the gaze of a crowd of spectators...
Although Donahue won both barrier events in the Yale-Harvard meet on May 13, and was therefore picked to run both races in England, he withdrew from the highs in favor of the flashy Eli champion who beat him in the Heptagonal meet...