Word: joe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their districts and the more they serve the nation. Of Representative Madden this was unusually true. His rise to dominance in the House was speedy after his first election in 1904. He measured up to make a trio of the famed Illinois couple of that time, Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon and James R. Mann. His district in Chicago was and is mostly populated by Negroes. Occasionally Mr. Madden would introduce a bill, such as one prohibiting "Jim Crow" cars, to please his own constituents specially. But his main efforts were expended towards national legislation, such as raising...
...long time Joie Ray was the best miler in the U. S. But he was more than that-he had what journalists call color. He would boast about what he was going to do and then he would do it. People called him "Chesty Joe" but they admired him and Ray kept on running and boasting and driving a taxicab in Chicago. Over a year ago he quit competition. Everyone said he was through. And then Ray announced that he was going to enter the 26-mile Boston Marathon on Patriots...
...goalie's eye was cut open and Lester Patrick, manager and coach, a star defense man 20 years ago, put on the pads and got in goal himself. After this game (TIME, April 16), the president of the National Hockey league appointed a new goalie for the Rangers-Joe Miller, late of the Americans...
Gang Angle. Bootleg gangsters hold Senator Deneen responsible for a recent attempt at Prohibition enforcement, in which raids were staged on eleven cabarets that considered themselves immune from such treatment. That may have inspired the bombing as well as the assassination of "Diamond Joe" Esposito, gangster, Deneen henchman of the 25th ward, flashy hero of Chicago's Little Italy. Fortnight ago, "Diamond Joe" stood on a corner, five doors from his home, when an automobile drove up to the curb. There was a rat-tat-tat and the automobile drove away, leaving 58 slugs in the body of "Diamond...
...want you to know," wrote Joe Bado, Bradley, Ohio, to Promoter Tex Rickard last week, "that I am a man with both artificial legs. I think the public would think it was grate to see a man with two artificial legs in the ring with Tunney. ... I am not afraid to fight...