Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Midwest tracks. Madison Square Garden, prime barometer for new U. S. sporting crazes, held its first doodlebug race in its outdoor bowl last year. A midget race in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium last summer drew 53,000 customers, largest professional sport gate that city had enjoyed since the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1926. Today there are profitable tracks in scores of U. S. cities, fly-by-night ventures in a hundred more. The sport has been roughly organized into Midwest, Pacific and Atlantic associations, but as yet has no national championship...
...Union City, N. J., Charles Dempsey climbed onto a train. Just before the train reached Summit. N. J., Mr. Dempsey anxiously confided to the conductor that he could not remember whether he had turned off the electric iron in his apartment. As the train slowed down to pass through Summit, the conductor threw off a note to the stationmaster. The stationmaster telegraphed to the Union City Police Department which broadcast to a radio car. The radio police entered Mr. Dempsey's apartment, found that he had indeed turned off the iron...
Martin T. Dempsey, Somerville--Somerville High School...
...husband's back taxes after he was found guilty of tax evasion in 1931. Mrs. Capone said she was not responsible for her husband's taxes. When his ig-year-old step-daughter Dorothy returned to his Salt Lake City house at midnight, 80-year-old Hiram Dempsey and an unidentified companion appeared in the darkness, ordered her escort off the premises. When Dorothy Dempsey began to cry, 41-year-old Mrs. Dempsey and her parents, Mr. & Mrs. John T. Lythgoe, who live next door, ran out to see what was wrong. In the argument that followed, someone...
...condition of fighting Joe Louis will doubtless be for all challengers a similar contract with Promoter Jacobs, Louis' victory last week gave Promoter Jacobs a virtual monopoly on all really largescale pugilistic enterprises in the future, set up a new promoting partnership which may eventually make the biggest Dempsey-Rickard coups look like small beans. Confusion. When Max Schmeling last year surprisingly knocked out Joe Louis for the first time in his career, his just reward was obviously a fight with Champion Braddock. When after contracting for the fight, Champion Braddock withdrew to fight Challenger Louis, Challenger Schmeling lived...