Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brink of destitution, just hop aboard a special bus leaving the Square at 12:15, head for Rockingham Park race track, and you'll be a rich man by mid-afternoon. The first race is a toss-up between two long shots, BEAU GENERAL and JACK DEMPSEY. Play each of them in the daily double with EFSHAR in the second race. The double should pay around $200. It can't lose...
Somebody once asked Jack Sharkey which of the two men was the greatest heavyweight champion since he had fought them both. Said Sharkey: "Jack Dempsey. If you put him and Joe Louis in a telephone booth to settle it, the guy who'd come out would be Dempsey." The Manassa Mauler is 27 Ibs. over his 188-lb. fighting weight these days. But he walks with the same alert, catlike grace, and he still looks fit to fight his way out of a telephone booth -or most any place else. As Dempsey celebrated his 70th birthday in his Manhattan...
...conservative William Howard Taft, who later became Chief Justice, called U.S. state criminal justice "a disgrace to our civilization." As recently as 1923, the Supreme Court confronted the fact that Arkansas' highest court had upheld death sentences meted out in a trial "dominated by mob violence" (Moore v. Dempsey). Was the Supreme Court wrong in reversing that decision? What about confessions "obtained by brutality or by fraud?" asked the dean. Since 1936, the court has faced 30 such cases -all affirmed by state courts. Did the Supreme Court overreach in overruling them...
ANDREW F. DEMPSEY JR. Lieutenant, U.S.M.C...
...Soviet leader since 1959, was waiting in the sprawling Congress Palace. During a 2½-hour secret session, Kosygin and Mao no doubt talked defense. The New China News Agency even published a photo of them that showed seriousness and mutual dislike in proportions not witnessed since Dempsey faced Tunney...