Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, in New York, former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey defeated his landlord in a legal battle to keep from being evicted from the Broadway restaurant he has run for 37 years. Jack Dempsey's does not serve MacDonald's burgers...
...partner. "But he won a lot of cases he shouldn't have because of his sincere manner." In 1952, at the age of 47, Sirica, long accustomed to a livery bachelorhood, married Lucile Camalier, 28. His best man was a lifelong friend from his boxing days, Jack Dempsey. Lucy promptly offered some career-saving advice, urging him to turn down an offer by Joseph McCarthy to become majority counsel for the Wisconsin Senator's rampaging Government Operations Committee. Otherwise, Sirica admits, he would have accepted. "I really liked Joe McCarthy, although we didn't always...
...immigrant Italian barber, Sirica entered Georgetown Law School straight from high school and financed his schooling by working as an athletics instructor for the Knights of Columbus and as an occasional exhibition boxer. As a semipro pugilist, he became a friend of Jack Dempsey's and accompanied the Manassa Mauler on bond drives across the U.S. during World...
...next year and a half - $44 million just inside Atlanta. Newark, N.J., officials put the likely loss in construction payrolls in that city at $86 million. Black-owned mortgage-banking firms that have sprung up to specialize in subsidy work will be hurt even more than the builders. Dempsey Travis, president of Chicago's Sivart Mortgage Corp., the nation's largest black-owned mortgage company, has cut his staff 25% since the freeze began. He says he knows of at least seven other black-managed mortgage concerns around the country that have been pushed into bankruptcy or merger...
...customers, including Secretary of State William P. Rogers, Ed Sullivan, Rocky Graziano, Frank Gifford, W. Averell Harriman, and Larry O'Brien (who held up a T shirt emblazoned: I'M A DEMOCRAT-DONT BUG ME). "Hello, Big John!" Toots roared as he bussed fellow Restaurateur Jack Dempsey. The former champion answered with a playful right to the jaw. Said one guest as the mid-afternoon party neared midnight: "I'll probably be here for breakfast...