Word: championed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and master of PWA, has established himself beyond compare as the champion name-caller of the New Deal. Last week he crossed tongues with ham-fisted Chairman Dies of the House's famed UnAmerican Committee, calling Mr. Dies "the outstanding zany* of our political history." Mr. Dies retorted that the Secretary of the Interior "literally reeks with the venom of hatred...
Outstanding prospects are Bob Benchley in the 136-pound class and Dick Thomas in the 145-pound class. Benchley, who is almost double jointed, had experience last year wrestling for Exeter. Thomas, from Omaha, Nebraska, was state champion in his weight class last year...
...five optional dives used in a meet offer a larger repertoire, there being several new optionals of the "Flying" variety--all of which begin with a swan, then turn into something else. Captain Rusty Greenhood, league champion, Chet Sagenkahn, George Dana, and a host of Sophomore aspirants are now practicing these new methods of getting into the water...
Kirkland meets Lowell tomorrow at 3:45 o'clock and Adams and defending champion Dunster will play at 5:30 o'clock...
...fastest man on skis was competing in the Winter Sports Show at the Boston Garden last night. He is Willy Bermath, versatile young Swiss ski champion. Bermath, who earned this title on the famed Flying Kilometre at St. Mortiz, has been skiing since he was six, and is visiting America for the first time...