Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been an active lawyer for more than 50 years, possessor of a large fortune (one copper consolidation which he effected brought $775,000 in lawyer fees). A persistent advocate of public control of pub lic utilities he has long fought on New York City's side of its subway fight and in 1926 he was Alfred Emanuel Smith's ad viser in blocking a private Power deal very similar to the one now effected by the House of Morgan. At present he is investigating for Governor Roosevelt in stances wherein municipalities are sup posed to have paid politicians too dearly...
...Madrid, Bullfighter Sydney Franklin of Brooklyn, N. Y., said that promoters had asked him to fight a bull in Manhattan "without bloodshed." Inquired Spanish critics grimly: "Would the bull keep the rules...
...people who could not possibly attend the games in person, such a course reveals an uneasiness in the minds of the promoters that seems strangely inconsistent with the reports of clamorous demands for seats at the coming World's Series and of a very gratifying gate at a fight between contenders of far from championship calibre. Ordinary business policy should warn them of the risk of antagonizing numbers of potential fans vastly greater than the relatively few who might be kept away from any one event by the possibility of hearing it on the radio, and if they are driven...
...Grand Rapids, Mich., the city pound manager put a cat into the asphyxial chamber with some dogs. The cat arched its back and spit for a fight. Its fur was bristling. .The manager slammed the chamber door and turned on the gas. The box exploded, injuring human attendants. Another explosion followed a similar experiment. Last week under the same circumstances there was a third explosion. Deduction: static electricity from the fighty cat's fur ignited the lethal gas. Authorities considered having the Grand Rapids Gas Light Co. perform further executions under contract...
...champion, of course. In choosing the author of the article on Boxing the U. S. advisors were doubtless less impressed by James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney's reputation for reading Shakespeare and hob nobbing with George Bernard Shaw, than in Retired Champion Tunney's undoubted knowledge of the fight game and the appropriateness of having a boxer write on Boxing. Whether or not they would have asked William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to write the section if Dempsey had knocked out Tunney when last they met, the editors do not say. But from their choices of new authors in other fields...