Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock, the subject for discussion will be "The Public Schools and the Economic Crisis". P. H. Hanus, professor the history and art of teaching, Emeritus, will preside. Dr. G. C. S. Benson, instructor in Government, will speak of "Local Governmental Expenditures and Present Economic Conditions". Dr. C. H. Dempsey, Superintendent of Schools in Arlington, will speak on "Relative Values in the Public School System...
...weight 190, onetime heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey last week climbed into a Chicago ring opposite Harry Krakow ("Kingfish Levinsky"), 21-year-old Maxwell Street fish peddler, rated as the tenth best heavyweight in the U. S. The fight, billed as a four round exhibition bout, had drawn a record crowd of 23,332, most of whom expected Dempsey to win, as he himself had suggested, "with one punch." Instead, tottering a little on legs that are no longer capable of the delicate shifts of balance necessary to a fighter, Dempsey found himself unable to maneuver Levinsky into an opening...
...When Dempsey last summer announced that he would undertake a series of exhibition bouts to recondition himself for an attempt to regain his title, no one knew exactly what he meant. Skeptics surmised that he had no intention of ever fighting heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling, but mentioned the possibility to increase crowds at his exhibition bouts. After the Levinsky bout, Dempsey was careful, honestly or otherwise, to preserve the uncertainty about his future. Said he: "I know I looked bad last night but I expect to have to take a little the worst of it as I go along...
Accompanied by Jerry ("Jerry the Greek") Luvadis, his rubber and body servant, and Leonard Sacks, his smooth spoken Hollywood secretary and business manager, Dempsey left to continue his tour in Louisville, Ky. (where Governor Ruby Laffoon was to give him the rank of Colonel on the Governor's staff), and Dayton, Ohio. Since he started his series of exhibition bouts last August, he has attracted record crowds on most of his appearances, won all his fights except last week's, scored 26 knockouts and earned $200,000, of which he has spent half...
...Hannagan who "humanized" Gene Tunney when the latter suffered acute unpopularity before his first fight with Dempsey. He counselled the late George L. ("Tex") Rickard in promoting the Sharkey-Stribling fight. He took Rickard to the hospital when he was stricken with appendicitis, substituted for him at the opening of the Miami Beach Kennel Club; was outside the door when Rickard died and escorted his body to New York. Returning to Miami Beach he continued promoting the fight, "building-up" Stribling for southern fans and Sharkey for the northerners for a $405,000 gate...