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...Robert T. Jones Jr. of Atlanta holds the British men's open title; Jess Sweetser of New York, the British men's amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In County Down | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...Senate. He backed up his previous charges with more charges, quoted an old testimony of an Alabama bootlegger: " 'You know Secretary Mellon loaned the Republican National Committee $5,000,000 in 1920. Only $3,000,000 has been repaid. There is a deficit of $2,000,000. Jess Smith was charged with getting that money. The plan was to have the liquor men and the breweries contribute to this fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Heflin | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...That is one of the reasons," shouted Senator Heflin, "why they wanted to get rid of Jess Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Heflin | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...Roberts had been successively vanquished by some young brawny Boston Lithuanian. But, then- Johnson was a has-been, knocked out by fat Jess Willard; Smith was a trial horse, only fair; Roberts, who had ever heard of him? Astute, pudgy gentlemen relaxed; the heavyweight situation seemed unchanged. . . . Later came news of the defeat of clever Jack Renault, tough Johnny Risko at the same hands. The hands belonged to square-jawed Jack Sharkey, carried the potential power of dynamite. Binghamton-born, Boston-bred, this Lithuanian with a famed Irish name* served in the navy, has boxed professionally for but two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Black Wills | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...does it look for tomorrow, Joe?" he asked with apparent nonchalance, but I could see his besom heave and re-heave as he waited. I couldn't bear to crush him with anything definite, so I just said. "Well, Jess, it will; take three touchdowns to win, and you know what three touchdowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOE FORECAST BETTING ON DARTMOUTH BATTLE | 10/23/1926 | See Source »

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