Word: dempseys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis: the 13th defense of his title; knocking out Challenger Clarence ("Red") Burman of Baltimore, Jack Dempsey's protégé in the fifth round; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Same day Louis received a questionnaire from the Detroit draft board (Order No. 378). "If I have to fight for Uncle Sam, the rest of the heavyweights can fight for the title," he drawled...
Visiting McCook, Neb., Jack Dempsey paid a call on McCook's leading citizen, 79-year-old Senator George W. Morris, The Senator eyed Jack's dashing sombrero, and remarked that it was a fine hat. "Let's trade," suggested Jack. Out walked Boxer Dempsey in the Senator's prairie-blown grey felt...
Tall, handsome, fiftyish, with a weakness for dizzy hats, Hedda is rated less inaccurate than most of the gossips, in a notoriously inaccurate field. An impetuous pourer-out, she seldom goes through a show without muffing words, mixing up names. Typical blunder last week was an item praising Jack Dempsey, which she gaffed into a plug for Jack Benny. Leaving the studio, she usually remarks, "Boy, I sure kicked that...
...Jack Dempsey: "As for Joe Louis [who came out for Willkie]. ... He should remember he was a poor man himself. He used to pick cotton." Joseph W. Martin Jr.: "I do not choose to enter the Cabinet." Chicago's Mayor Kelly: "We have no voice or control over the ballots as they are marked by the voters." Van Wyck Brooks: "Although I am a Socialist I am voting for President Roosevelt this year because I do not feel that Norman Thomas is realistic regarding the present world crisis." Norman Thomas: "It's a phony campaign. . . ." General Hugh...
...Rome's radio announcers, admonished them sagely and piously: "You have a powerful voice which reaches the four corners of the world. Let us hope that voice will always speak words of truth, enlightenment and love." Refereeing his first labor fight (by court appointment as an arbitrator), Jack Dempsey, ex-heavyweight champion and Manhattan restaurateur, gave 27 office workers a 10% pay raise, a 40-hour week, time-and-a-half overtime, a modified closed shop...