Word: gotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wall he found photographs of the body of his late brother Robert, secretary to Edward Laurence Doheny Jr., son of the oil tycoon, taken just after Robert Plunkett shot Doheny Jr. dead and killed himself in 1929. Infuriated, Hugh Plunkett tore the prints from the wall, had Proprietor Joe Gotch and five associates arrested. The charge: libeling the memory of the dead...
...trial last week Defendants Gotch et al pleaded, successfully, that the pictures were privileged as an exhibit "designed to deter criminal acts...
...been presented with a jeweled gold belt supposed to symbolize the wrestling championship of the world. However, it is not the only belt with this significance. Don George, Michigan graduate, also claims the world's championship because he beat Gus Sonnenberg two months ago. Not since herculean Frank Gotch retired in 1913, after a career in which he won 154 matches out of 160, has there been an undisputed heavyweight wrestling champion. In the last seven years two main groups of wrestlers have emerged to do business separately, each with its own champion: a group controlled by Promoter Jack...