Word: championed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rang with that chant one night last week, the night that bomb-pocked Barcelona was falling and U. S. warboats were speeding to evacuate U. S. citizens (see p. 14). Letters and telegrams poured in at the White House. Even North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. Nye, longtime champion of the Neutrality Act, came out for lifting the embargo on Loyalist Spain. Even the President's wife made a speech about Neutrality...
Haydn: Concerto in D Major, Op. 21, for Piano and Orchestra (Orchestre Symphonique of Paris, M. F. Gaillard conducting, with Marguerite Roesgen-Champion; Columbia: 4 sides). Earlier vintage Haydn, with less body but plenty of sparkle. Pianist Roesgen-Champion serves it properly: at room temperature...
Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis was a 10-to-1 favorite before ringtime. But John Henry Lewis, just seven days older but three years wiser in ring experience, is one of the most skilful boxers in the business. He had been defeated only seven times in 99 fights, had never been knocked out, and had successfully defended his world's light-heavyweight championship against all comers the past three years...
There were those who said Champion Joe would carry John Henry a few rounds because they were pals, fellow Negroes. But those who fight Joe nowadays also fight a terrible fear of what he can do to them, and Joe mowed John Henry down in about the time it takes to tee up and drive a golf ball...
Filed for probate in Manhattan was the will of the late, 71-year-old Colonel Jacob Ruppert, multimillionaire brewer, bachelor, owner of the World Champion New York Yankees. It disclosed that he had left all but $150,000 of his $40,000,000 fortune amassed in beer, baseball and real estate in trust for three women. Nieces Helen Silleck Holleran and Ruth Silleck Maguire each got one-third of the estate. To onetime bit-playing Actress Helen Winthrope Weyant, 37, "a very old friend," went the other third, and $300,000 in cash. To make sure that the Yankees would...