Word: championed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Right on Top!" If Ontario had any real Labor political organization it would now be able to make plenty of trouble for "Mitch." But he himself was so recently Labor's chief champion that Ontario's proletariat has been caught napping. Up to last week one and only one candidate affiliated with C. I. O. had offered himself for election against "Mitch's" Liberal slate, Alfred Mustin, President of Local No. 67 of the United Rubber Workers of America, standing at North Waterloo as an Independent Laborite...
...courts were discouragingly rare, has put Germany into the Davis Cup interzone final four times (1932-35-36-37). He has played 74 Davis Cup matches and lost only 14, five in his first season. He has defeated every leading amateur in the world. Last year in the French champion ships, fortified by a cleaner backhand stroke he had learned from William Tatem Tilden, he beat Fred Perry for the title. Then the following month at Wimbledon he strained a thigh muscle and lost to Perry in the final...
...women's singles Defending Champion Alice Marble faced a domestic field headed by Helen Jacobs, whom she rudely upset last year. But she too was expected to find her chief difficulty with the foreign field, most notably with Chile's Anita Lizana and Poland's 154-lb. Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, who has met Champion Marble five times this year and beaten her four...
...Pilot Lee Miles was doing about 200 m. p. h. 50 yd. from the ground. Suddenly his wing folded. Hurtling end over end, the fuselage pitched in a long arc into a clump of trees. When witnesses got there, Pilot Miles, who was officially declared the U. S. racing champion of 1934, was dead...
Married. Dorothy Round, crack British tennist, All-England tennis champion; to Dr. Douglas Little, physician; in Dudley, England. Mrs. Little announced her retirement from tournament tennis...