Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt Sr. who was on a world tour. That the family of the 26th U. S. president could hope last week to keep up with that of the 32nd (see p. 18) was of course unthinkable, but no more unthinkable than that the former would give up without a fight. From Shanghai, where she had been keeping herself ably in the limelight, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. last week arrived in Manila on the President Jefferson just in time to maintain her clan's record for attendance at oriental earthquakes. Said she, in an able radio broadcast: "I want...
...Most public men fight for re-election to office only because they are not quiters. If the voters are good enough to relieve them, there comes in time a great sense of gratitude for freedom and a determination to hold on to that blessed state And this state develops objectivity...
Spain. Italy will continue to fight for the "Nationalists" under General Francisco Franco, will not tolerate "Bolshevists or anything of that sort...
...maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago. The Garden's long control over the heavyweight fight industry was out for the count of ten when Braddock, its erstwhile "Cinderella Man," hit the canvas. Next; week Max Schmeling arrives in the U. S. There is every possibility that he will now have his long-delayed try for his second world's championship, only this time both...
Habitual million-dollar gates died with Tex Rickard and the Coolidge boom. But Rickard, for all his promotional flair, never made the money out of the fight business that Mike Jacobs has. A peanut peddler and candy butcher on Coney Island excursion boats, Mike Jacobs first began doing business with Rickard in 1916 when Rickard moved into New York with the Jess Willard-Frank Moran championship fight. Jacobs bought up a huge block of tickets, paid Rickard a premium and sold them for a profit. Years later, as boxing promoter at Madison Square Garden, Rickard was supposed to have continued...