Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time the problem was of prime interest at Yale. The News printed several letters on the subject, including one opposing subsidization from John B. Dempsey, Chairman of the Alumni Board, and also conducted a poll of New Haven residents, of whom more than two thirds favored scholarships...
...controversy was sparked by an article written by sports writer George Trevor of the New York Sun, urging a relaxation of scholarship requirements. Spence Moseley, football captain-elect, spoke on the subject on the University Forum of the Air program Tuesday night, and John B. Dempsey, chairman of the Alumni Board, asserted in a letter to the News that the graduates were almost unanimously opposed to the plan...
...gone on from the day when the English drew their long bows and upset the flower of French chivalry at Creey and Agincourt to the cra when American fight fans finally decided that Jack Dempsey was an underdog and deserved cheers instead of boos. The hearts of millions of women will beat a little faster today every time some back named Seymour or Harrison or Frank or Booth or whatever this generation's names are gain a yard or two. And Peabody and Pfister and MacKinney and Lee will be playing the roles of the villainous favorites, but they will...
...race but one of the most respectable prizefighters of all time. From the sorry pass to which a series of second-raters had brought it (Sharkey, Camera, Baer, Braddock), he restored the world's championship to the gate and almost the vigor that it had in Dempsey...
...William Whittington, George S. Wallace, Fred B. Withington, Jr., Stephen B. Smart, Don W. Richards, George B. Post, Hugh McCaffey, John H. Hewitt, Bradley D. Harris, Howard Hodgson, William J. Hornbeck, James W. Hubbell, Jr., Peter Garland, Ed French, George P. Early, Philip Drake, Victor J. Dowling, John P.E. Dempsey, George N. Casey, Clarence J. Clark, Arthur Bauman, Frank D. Bixler, Sherwood Bain and Thomas R. Ayres...