Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knock out 47 next season, 60 the next. McGovern opened a second gym, largest of its kind in the world, specialized in "pushing the big shots out of bed," got $200 a month per customer for an hour's exercise a day (chiefly in a reclining position). Jack Dempsey, Gene Sarazen, Paul Whiteman, John J. Raskob were among his customers. Least cooperative, he once recalled, was a Tammanyite who for a year paid $300 a month for home treatments, had a hangover every time McGovern came to the house, never...
...other bolter was genial, ruddy, white-haired John J. Dempsey, who for a year has served with restraint in Mr. Ickes' department as Under Secretary. An old friend of Terrible Harold. Mr. Dempsey denied that there had been any disagreement. He resigned, he said, because he had other plans...
...years ago, wealthy Mr. (then Congressman) Dempsey ran for the U.S. Senate from New Mexico. Behind him was a record as one of the most effective, best-liked legislators the House had seen in a blue moon. But his opponent, Senator Dennis Chavez, had a slick political machine. Dempsey lost, took the interim Interior job. Now he wanted to go back to New Mexico and run for Governor...
...spot left by 63-year-old Jack Dempsey was not vacant long. Into it the President lifted smart, big-eared, young (32) Abe Fortas, Memphis-born director of the Interior Department's power division. For Mr. Fortas it was a reward: a Yale Law School graduate, he has long and faithfully, often skillfully, served the New Deal-on AAA, SEC, PWA, as general counsel to the Bituminous Coal Commission, as bat boy on the Corcoran-Cohen team. Mr. Ickes will not find any difficulty in snuggling black-haired, esthetic-looking Mr. Fortas under his wing. He has long been...
Francis R. Dieuaide, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Edward W. Dempsey, Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Robert W. Nye, Assistant Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; Austin M. Brues, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Robert E. Gross, Assistant Professor of Surgery; Frank W. Maurer, Assistant Professor of Physiology...