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Decision to take this radical step was not Manager Farley's. He had called a "pep meeting" for Roosevelt leaders. Bruce Kremer and Senator Wheeler, both of Montana, began to urge a change in the rules to help their candidate. Senator Huey Long, Louisiana's "Kingfish," delivered a loud yawp for the same thing, swung the meeting completely off its balance. Josephus Daniels of North Carolina and Senator Hull of Tennessee chimed in. Manager Farley lost control of the meeting and the Roosevelt movement passed momentarily into the little hands of little men from the South and West. The meeting...
...defined the efficiency of a prize-fighter by his ability in the ring, Harry Krakow ("Kingfish Levinsky") would not rate better than tenth among U. S. heavyweights. Last year he had 15 fights, won only eight. If you defined efficiency as a fighter's ability to earn money at his trade, Kingfish Levinsky might rank as best fighter in the U. S. In the last 15 months, gates at his fights with Slattery, Griffiths, Camera, Paulino and an exhibition bout against Jack Dempsey have amounted to $254,124.68. He may this year earn more than Schmeling, Sharkey, Dempsey, Camera...
...weight 190, onetime heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey last week climbed into a Chicago ring opposite Harry Krakow ("Kingfish Levinsky"), 21-year-old Maxwell Street fish peddler, rated as the tenth best heavyweight in the U. S. The fight, billed as a four round exhibition bout, had drawn a record crowd of 23,332, most of whom expected Dempsey to win, as he himself had suggested, "with one punch." Instead, tottering a little on legs that are no longer capable of the delicate shifts of balance necessary to a fighter, Dempsey found himself unable to maneuver Levinsky into an opening...
...bickered over who was to be acting Governor of Louisiana. King won, was sworn in as Governor, while Cyr sneered: "usurper!" Senator Long took ten rooms at the Mayflower Hotel, received the Press in lavender pajamas and declared: "I'm a small fish here perhaps but I'm the kingfish to the people of Louisiana." He smoked his way into the Senate, announced himself "ready for business...
...manicurist, felt his ardor for her cool, Messrs. Gosden & Correll have marched their story bit-by-bit right into a breach-of-promise courtroom. There it was necessary to have Mme Queen's testimony. So high-voiced Amos spoke for her (as he does for The Kingfish, Brother Crawford and Lightnin'). Testified Mme Queen: ''The second time Andy was in there, he said to me, he said: 'Sweetheart, this is one of the best manicures I ever had.' . . . One night we had a date, and we was sittin' on the sofa...