Word: escobar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Athletic Commission's nominee for world's featherweight champion, Mike Belloise, and England's Dave Crowley. It ended in the ninth round when the referee refused to allow Crowley's claim of foul, counted him out instead. Four nights before in Manhattan, fiery little Sixto Escobar of Puerto Rico improved his claim to the world's bantamweight title by forcing his opponent, Pittsburgh's Tony Marino, to stop after the 13th round, when both his eyes were cut so badly that he could...
...Knockout." Thus did Challenger Sixto Escobar, swart, pint-sized Puerto Rican, haltingly predict to newshawks last week the outcome of his bout with Champion Lou Salica for the world's bantamweight crown. When the savage 15-round struggle was over, Escobar was proved two-thirds correct. By a steady body attack, he won the decision, reversed the result of their first meeting three months...
Persuaded to go home just before the shooting recommenced was Paraguay's "Runaway Grandfather," dauntless 65-year-old Jose Escobar who sneaked away from his family two months ago, joined his son at the front and fought for 21 consecutive days in Paraguay's Big Push which wiped out 15,000 Bolivians (TIME...
Lazardo Cardenas, 39, is a Tarascan Indian from the southwest State of Michoacan. He left Michoacan's Governorship to help Boss Calles suppress the 1929 Escobar revolt. He took charge of the Government's troops in the State of Sonora, made a name as an efficient, hard-driving officer. In 1930 when onetime President Fortes Gil tried to make the National Revolutionary Party his personal machine, Cardenas was politically smart in lining up with Calles, was appointed Party president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity...