Word: fisticuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pugilists from House, Yard, and Graduate schools will turn out today for the annual University boxing tournament in the Indoor Athletic Building. According to Henry Lamar, fisticuff mentor, 49 men have signed up, the largest group of entries in the last ten years...
There will be no seeding, Henry Lamar, fisticuff mentor, said last night. The fighters will be paired by chance in the eight weight classes, with the semifinals listed for 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening...
This afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building the Bunny boxers will enter the ring with the Funsters in the semifinal round of the House boxing tourney. The winner fights Kirkland for the title on Thursday. Scheduled for next week is the University fisticuff tournament...
...internal dispute. A further political complication was the fact that one of the A. F. of L. Executive Council's bitterest enemies of industrial unionism, President William L. Hutcheson of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, who hates Leader Lewis not only for his ideas but for the fisticuff Lewis dealt him at the last A. F. of L. convention (TIME, Oct. 28), was chairman of the Republican Labor committee in the 1932 campaign, expects to do the same job this year...
...steps of the house were five Senators and six Representatives, Democrats all, who had just arrived from Washington for a party conference with their national leader. The Communists shook fists, hooted, yelled. The Congressmen beat a quick retreat inside the Roosevelt home. The police with many a fisticuff and nightstick thwack cleared East 68th Street. All was again quiet when Mr. Roosevelt and his visitors settled down comfortably in an upstairs study for a heart-to-heart talk...