Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, promoter, has never qualified as a hobo, has ridden only 70 miles as "blind baggage." So, last week, announced one Charles Kruze of Philadelphia, onetime hobo, onetime president of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, hobo sodality, at the Brotherhood's convention in Newark...
...time Schmeling was an art student. He was also a miner, a structural iron worker, a copyboy in the advertising department of a German newspaper. He wanted to be a sailor but his mother said nein. Since he has learned English he revels in Conrad, Jack London, Western stories. He solemnly avers that in German he reads Gerhart Hauptmann and, of course, Goethe, Schiller...
Like many another boxer he plays much golf. He likes cinema and has spent much time studying movies of Jack Dempsey's fights. He wears a gold wristwatch with a black silk band. In his upper jaw he carries two large adjacent gold teeth. When he speaks he gesticulates gracefully...
Snowden, Philip, wizened, pixielike Chancellor of the Exchequer, Labor's bitter-tongued financial expert (TIME, April 29) who shares with legless Major Jack Benn Brunei Cohen the title of Cripple of the House of Commons...
...also learned that representatives from Princeton and Cornell, the two colleges which combine to meet the Englishmen later in the month, have been invited by the Harvard Athletic Association to attend this meet. It is expected that Keene Fitzpatrick, Princeton track coach, and Romeyn Berry and Jack Moakley, Graduate Manager of Athletics and track coach, respectively, at Cornell, will be present...