Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Court in Newark, N. J. last week District Judge Guy Leverne Fake denied the Madison Square Garden Corp.'s plea for a temporary injunction to stop the scheduled heavyweight prize fight between Champion James Braddock and Challenger Joe Louis in Chicago on June 22. The court ruled that the Garden's contract with Braddock "places an unreasonable restraint upon his liberty." For the benefit of fight fans who want to keep up with the heavyweight legal tangle, the New York Times's versatile Sportswriter John Kieran submitted this brief at week...
...Braddock v. Madison Square Garden or vice versa, the first round went to Braddock on negative points (Federal Court, 1937, Fake, J.). However, Braddock now proceeds 'sub suo periculo' and is, among other things, subject to estoppel by deed of Louis, J., when, as and if the issue is presented 'per curiam' on June 22, as specified on the Illinois calendar...
...Tell our legionnaires I am following their action hourly. . . . Mussolini." This drew prompt official denial from Rome where it was called "a fake, clumsy trick...
...praise in the cinema industry are the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. At the Academy's Annual Banquet last week, where some 1,200 guests included practically every real and fake celebrity in the business, the Academy bestowed its most publicized prize-that for the best U. S. performance of the year by an actress-upon a young woman who a year and a half ago was unknown in the U. S. and had never appeared in the cinema anywhere. She was MGM's Luise Rainer. The role for which she was rewarded...
...when on exhibition, claims to be 8 ft. 6 in. That height seems to be a favorite among sideshow giants. John G. Tarver of Alba, Tex., claims it. Clifford Thompson of Stevens Point, Wis. claims an inch more. Dr. Humberd frankly does not believe them. He insists that they fake their real heights by wearing high-heeled shoes and tall hats...