Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallace to come back to the Democratic Party. For his final rally, Isacson drew an overflow crowd of 8,500, who came to hear Wallace and such other notables of the far left as Singer Paul Robeson and Congressman Vito Marcantonio. At another rally the same night Prizefighter Champion Joe Louis, contributed $100 to the Wallace campaign...
...Marjorie Chamberlain of Purley, near London, had a nanny goat named Gertie and two kids named Snitch and Snatch. She also had a one-eyed, champion egg-laying duck named Belinda, and a Derby racing car. All these chattels needed housing...
...local politicos, BMOC's, and Maize and Blue football squad members, here's the way they will line up: As line coach, it looks like Forrest "Butch" Jordan, currently listed as assistant line coach in the Ann Arbor pigskin picture. The former letterman guard and ex-Western Conference wrestling champion, when asked if he planned to follow Valpey to Harvard, said, "I only wish I know...
...third time in a month, New Jersey's 18-year-old Dick Button out-darted Switzerland's Hans Gerschweiler to win the men's world figure-skating championship. He had already won the European and Olympic titles at Prague and St. Moritz. Defending Champion Gerschweiler did a pratfall during an Axel Paulsen in the free-skating. Three of the nine judges rated Button's performance 5.9 (perfect...
...Canada's Barbara Ann Scott won the women's world championship for the second year in a row, making it all three for her too. Several outclassed rivals, including overtrained U.S. Champion Gretchen Merrill, didn't bother to compete. But Barbara Ann practiced with unflagging zeal, cautiously observing that "anything can happen." Nothing out of the ordinary...