Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereupon Miss Stinson went on to relate that her ex-husband had told her of having received with the Attorney General gifts of stock and cash for permitting interstate transportation of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight films, etc. She said, when he went to Washington, his property was worth $150,000 to $175,000 and that he denied his estate was worth $250,000. He had had no business in the meantime, but she insisted that he had steadily improved his fortune, although he was an unsuccessful stock speculator, after going to Washington...
...Means asserted: 1) that he had received for Jesse Smith $100,000 in cash from a representative of Mitsui Co., Japanese bankers, in connection with a War contract case with the Standard Aircraft Corporation; 2) that he had received, also on Smith's behalf, various sums from the Dempsey-Carpentier fight film affair; 3) that he had tried "to get something" on Senators; La Follette and Caraway; 4) that President Harding had ordered that he investigate Secretary Mellon in regard to liquor withdrawal frauds?"the President wanted that information in regard to him: to catch him, and we caught...
Percy Hammond: "Scientifically, The Outsider is, as Mr. Dempsey would say, 'the bunk.' . . . But Mr. Atwill is gorgeous as the quack-doctor; and Miss Cornell's realization of the passionate lame girl seems a perfect thing. I suspect she knows more about honest acting than any of the other actors of today...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt (Alice Gwynne), largest individual taxpayer in Newport: "I wrote a letter to the Mayor of Newport protesting against the proposed Dempsey-Wills boxing bout to be held there next summer. Said I: 'I strongly disapprove of the project. I feel that it would not tend to the improvement nor advancement of the city...
Luis Angel Firpo, "Pampas bull": "Under my signature in The New York World, I wrote that on the 14th of September [the night I fought Dempsey] I was not even in condition to face a sick...