Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Annette Islanders prepared to be host to more than 400 of them for a long time to come. Most of the guests will be youngsters of CCC, scheduled to sail this week from Seattle on the Army transport Leonard Wood, with a detachment of Army engineers and technicians of the U. S. Forest Service. Their assignment: to clear and drain an Air Corps flying field on the swampy, flat west arm of Annette Island's reservation...
Last week, in Manhattan, a new menace had risen up to tease the Guild, a rival newsmen's union, the American News paper Writers Association. Organized one week after the Guild convention adjourned, A. N. W A. was the handiwork of Red-hating William Leonard Laurence, able science editor of the New York Times. Armed with a charter from A. F. of L. (which the Guild left to join C. I. O. in 1937), Rebel Laurence promptly put in a claim with Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger to have his union designated sole bargaining agent for Times editorial workers...
...Manhattan set-to between Welterweight Champion Henry Armstrong, Negro buzz saw, and Light weight Champion Lew Jenkins, self-styled "kind of crazy-punching guy." A nontitle fight, it had nevertheless been ballyhooed as the most exciting little-men's match since the days of Lew Tendler and Benny Leonard...
...three world's titles (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight) within eleven months, he plopped Jenkins to the floor once in the fourth round, twice in the fifth, three times in the sixth. Just before the bell rang for the beginning of the seventh round, the "best lightweight since Benny Leonard" collapsed, toppled off his stool...
Though tuna may migrate without notice, packers cannot. Biggest Northern States packer is Astoria's William Leonard Thompson (no kin to the oceanographer), board chairman of C. R. P. A. But C. R. P. A. was famed for its salmon pack-Bristol Bay's Alaska Red, Columbia River's Fancy Chinook. So when the first albacore came to him in 1937, big, whispering, hard-hitting Bill Thompson, 60, sent them to California for processing and packing. California packers condemned twelve carloads. Roaring "To hell with that-we'll can 'em ourselves," Bill Thompson...