Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack Bernstein, who was born on the New York East Side, next door to Benny Leonard, was awarded the junior lightweight championship of the world after 15 furious rounds with Johnny Dundee at the New York Velodrome. Dundee scored the only knockdown of the fight and was indignant at the verdict. Popular opinion gave him only five rounds of the fight, three even, seven to Bernstein...
...Chicago public was presented with a bout not on the card when Ritchie Mitchell piled into the ring after his brother Pinky's defeat by Benny Leonard, and struck Referee Miller in the mouth. Ritchie objected to the latter's decision that Leonard had won by knockout without troubling to count Pinky out. Since the round had only five seconds to go when Pinky went down, much of the crowd agreed with Ritchie. Rough and rapid police action saved the referee and approximately ten thousand black eyes among the crowd...
...Toppan biennial prize for the best essay of not more than fifteen thousand words on a subject in political science goes to William Leonard Langer 5G., of Cambridge; the Ricardo prize scholarship, for the best essay written in a special examination held for competitiors, to Howard Sylvester Ellis, 1G., of Iowa City, Iowa; and the Menorah Society prize, for the best essay by an undergraduate on the work and achievements of the Jewish people, to Abram Vossen Goodman '24, of Brookline...
Because of his absence from Cambridge, Dr. Davison will be unable to give his regular organ recital after the chapel service today, but this morning his place will be taken by C. T. Leonard '23, who will give two selections. Dr. Davison will return tomorrow morning and plans to play each day next week...
Governor Sweet of Colorado, the much-advised, appointed a Senator to succeed the late Samuel D. Nicholson. Ex-President Wilson, William G. McAdoo, William J. Bryan and General Leonard Wood all made suggestions. Governor Sweet chose to select his own man, Alva B. Adams, son of the late Governor Alva Adams. Governor Sweet's party label is " Progressive Democrat." So it was expected that he would appoint a Democrat of radical tendencies-a Democratic La Follette, another Dill. It was understood that the La Follette group wanted him to appoint ex-Congressman Keating, now editor of Labor. Instead...