Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nylander, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, went in and announced that the Labor Board would hold hearings on charges that Douglas Aircraft had discriminated against union employes and refused to bargain collectively, urged the strikers to give up. Believing that they would be licked in a fight, the 345 sit-downers marched out, were carted off to Los Angeles County jail in police wagons and busses, all but three score of them later released without bail. At Northrop Corp., subsidiary of Douglas, 200 sit-downers then walked out rather than risk indictment...
Because the world's heavyweight boxing champion is supposed to be able to thrash any unarmed human, fights between big men often attract huge crowds which know nothing about prizefighting. Bouts between lightweights (135 Ib.) appeal chiefly to connoisseurs of fighting. Last week, two lightweights, neither of whom had any claim to the championship of the class, fought 15 rounds in New York's Madison Square Garden. When they finished, the most sophisticated fight crowd of the season agreed that, judged according to the bloody esthetics of pugilism, the affair deserved a niche among ring classics...
...Yardling leader, Cochran. Bill Goslin and Jerry Piel have been running neck and neck and for the 165 pound berth, and the latter, with three years of Varsity experience behind him, will probably get the call to face Yale's Woodman. Either one of them will have an uphill fight on their hands at New Haven...
Braddock v. Louis. Biggest fight of 1936 was Max Schmeling's surprising knockout of Negro Joe Louis. Biggest reward for Schmeling was a contract with Madison Square Garden to fight Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock. Biggest drawback in the plan was the fact that Champion Braddock, faced with the necessity of risking his title for the first time since he won it two years ago, much preferred to risk it against Joe Louis, with whom he could draw a $1,000,000 gate, than against Schmeling, with whom he, might draw $200,000. Last week, in contempt...
...Shreveport. The man who built the Kansas City Southern into a first-class railroad was bush-bearded old Leonor Fresnel Loree of the Delaware & Hudson R.R., ousted from his post of stewardship on the K.C.S. last year by Paine, Webber after a long-drawn-out fight at the corporate polls...