Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riding on Air (RKO). Joe E. Brown as a smalltown reporter who wins a $5,000 prize, invests it in a shady airplane venture, nearly kills himself trying...
When a coffee-colored Negro boy named Joe Louis Barrow graduated from Detroit's Bronson School in 1931, his teacher gave him a report card to take home to his mother. On the card was written: "This boy should be able to do something with his hands...
Last week in Chicago, Prize Fighter Joe Louis lived up to this dubious compliment. In the presence of 45,000 spectators in Comiskey Park his hands knocked out James J. Braddock in the eighth round of their bout for the heavyweight championship of the world. Major results of Louis' handiwork were two: it made him the first colored man to hold the championship since crafty Jack Johnson allowed himself to be knocked out by Jess Willard in 1915, and it started a new regime in pugilistic finance, by which shrewd, bald-headed Michael Jacobs succeeded Madison Square Garden Corp...
Fight Major defect in Joe Louis' fighting equipment, as shown in his defeat by Schmeling, was an inadequate defense against a right to the jaw. Major defect in most of Louis' opponents has been simple fear. Last week, as soon as the fight started, it became obvious that Braddock was not afraid and that Louis could still be hit with a right. After forcing the fighting through most of the first round, Braddock, pinned momentarily against the ropes, caught Louis with a short right uppercut that knocked his opponent off his feet. Louis jumped up without a count...
...offered as a guarantee for fighting Challenger Schmeling. But Champion Braddock's loss was trifling compared to Madison Square Garden's. After last week's fight. Promoter Jacobs signed a five year contract for Champion Louis' exclusive services. Since a condition of fighting Joe Louis will doubtless be for all challengers a similar contract with Promoter Jacobs, Louis' victory last week gave Promoter Jacobs a virtual monopoly on all really largescale pugilistic enterprises in the future, set up a new promoting partnership which may eventually make the biggest Dempsey-Rickard coups look like small beans...