Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been turned loose making automobiles, mining coal, or publishing news periodicals, the storm of protest would have been terrific, and the effort ended. Only in construction, the most disintegrated of all industries, could such an invasion of private industry be continued. We, in the industry, fight against its socialization...
What caused last week's marriage stampede in Chicago was another war, not in Europe this time but right at home -the 1937 U. S. war on venereal disease (TIME, Oct. 26). The Law had stepped in to help fight a battle for Medicine. Beginning July 1 no marriage license could be issued in Illinois without a physician's certificates that both parties had passed tests showing freedom from syphilis and gonorrhea.*By no means were all Illinois' last-minute licensees tainted: many wished to avoid the added expense (up to $25) of the medical tests; others...
Champion Braddock's net return from his share of last week's $715,000 gross receipts, ninth largest in ring history, was some $60,000,* far less than he was offered as a guarantee for fighting Challenger Schmeling. But Champion Braddock's loss was trifling compared to Madison Square Garden's. After last week's fight. Promoter Jacobs signed a five year contract for Champion Louis' exclusive services. Since a condition of fighting Joe Louis will doubtless be for all challengers a similar contract with Promoter Jacobs, Louis' victory last week gave Promoter...
...gathering. Son Starling W. Jr., who remained, eventually explained: "My mother died of cancer and my father has never forgotten it. He has always wanted to do something about it. He has established the fund together with another person, who prefers to remain anonymous, as his contribution to the fight against the disease. The fund is created primarily to inquire into the causes of cancer rather than into its cure...
Suing for divorce. Mrs. Maxine Rickard Dailey Gill, widow of late Fight Promoter Tex Rickard; from Thomas Gill, Chicago broker; in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty. After Promoter Rickard died in 1929, Mrs. Rickard married one Frank Dailey. He died and in 1936 she married Broker Gill...