Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallace Campaign Manager C. B. ("Beany") Baldwin and two other Wallace coworkers. Police dispersed the mob. Cried Henry: "The blame for this violence lies with the press for giving misinformation." Inside the hall an uneasy audience of 500, most of them well dressed, settled back to listen to the champion of peace, appeasement, and the "common man," and to contribute $1,000 to his cause...
...Champion. He was, in some ways, a strange champion. He was 67, and in frail health. He was born the son of a petty Austrian official and a subject of His Apostolic Majesty, Francis Joseph (his birthplace near Trento belonged to Austria until after World War I). He had been active in the Italian nationalism movement as a student at the University of Innsbruck. But he was a rambling speaker and a rambling organizer, and he had a lifelong reputation as a compromiser...
Croaked one of his hangers-on: "You pulped him, champ-pulped him." The world's middleweight champion scowled back coldly: "Gwan. I licked him with my brains. He didn't think I could box. I showed him. I sure showed him. For a lousy buck, too." A photographer wanted him to kiss the dollar (Rocky's purse for fighting Sonny Home last week in Washington), but the champ's attention wavered. He answered another question: "Yeah, so my timing was off. What...
Picking Up $120,000. With that performance, Rocky got his foot in the door. Three days later, at Toots Shor's restaurant in Manhattan, a battery of publicity men escorted tieless Rocky into a room filled with cold cuts and sports reporters. He and ex-Middleweight Champion Tony Zale signed a contract to fight for the title on June 9 in Newark's Ruppert Stadium, Rocky's guarantee...
Only bright spot of the afternoon was the return of Len Lunder, batting champion of last year and a right fielder, who was operated on for an infected leg during the Spring vacation. Wearing a special pad, fashioned by James Farrell, Lunder was able to run, but will not be able to play until the end of the week...