Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promoter Jack Curley. Aided by two enormous paws, a neck thicker than his head and a strange grip which he called the "Irish whip." Danno O'Mahoney promptly won 49 bouts in a row. For his 50th. he received the reward of a match with Jim Londos, principal claimant to the World's Heavyweight Championship...
...decision was disgraceful. One of George's seconds attacked Referee Braddock. Braddock promptly knocked him down. Twenty other handlers and camp-followers climbed into the ring, began scuffling among themselves. Pinned against the ring by spectators struggling to get into the fight was Massachusetts' Governor James M. Curley. one of the 45,000 (a record) who had seen the bout...
...years ago, U. S. wrestling had boiled down to two major groups, comparable to the major leagues of baseball. One was Promoter Curley's, with Londos for champion. The other was run by Promoter Paul Bowser, with Ed Don George's predecessor, Henri De Glane, as chief attraction. A year ago, wrestling rumors said that a merger between the two groups was imminent. Last week's bout, however acrimoniously contested, was essentially an indication that the merger had been amicably completed and that Promoter Jack Curley, with simple O'Mahoney as his proxy, had finally become...
...massive 59-year-old Alsatian, whose huge red, wide-eyed face looks as if it were being constantly pressed against an invisible pane of glass, Jack Curley was christened Jacques Armand Schuel, chose his present name because he has curly hair...
...Esplanade by the Charles River in Boston, Arthur Fiedler opened the seventh season of concerts by Boston Symphony men. Governor James Michael Curley hyperbolically saluted "the finest musicians and the finest leader...