Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidates for the various nines at the Varsity Club. On Thursday night the lettermen of last year's baseball squad will hold a smoker at the Harvard Club in Boston, at which the Wendell and Wingate Trophies will be awarded. Informal lacrosse practice, under the direction of Coach Madison Sayles '27, will begin tomorrow afternoon in the Briggs Cage. On Wednesday the University foilsmen will start their season in a stiff tournament for places on the American Olympic team at Technology. Boxing will start its second season at Harvard with a fixture against the University of Toronto on Saturday...
...Madison County, Tom Collins and Bernice Griffin went hunting. They fell to arguing about whether or not one should say "howdy" to a stranger. Sportsman Griffin won the argument by killing Sportsman Collins...
...Roosevelt came out of political retirement to advance the Presidential candidacy of Al Smith. On his crutches he clumped up to the rostrum of the Democratic convention in Madison Square Garden, delivered an impassionate nominating speech that turned the rowdy galleries into pandemonium. Davis, not Smith, got the nomination but Mr. Roosevelt's efforts did not pass unnoticed. Four years later, this time at Houston, he was again chosen to nominate his "Happy Warrior." But in 1928 "Al" wanted more assistance from his loyal friend "Frank" than a nominating speech. He needed a good strong name at the head...
Lieut.-Governor Albert B. Chandler of Kentucky addressed the annual convention of the American Bureau of Chiropractic Inc. in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, told an audience of 12,000 that chiropractors were welcome in Kentucky. At the end of his speech Lieut.-Governor Chandler's wife seated herself at a piano, played for him while he sang "Sonny Boy" and, as an encore, "Mother Machree...
Nine years ago William Michael Petrolle was nicknamed "The Fargo Express" because, until he became a prizefighter after taking a correspondence course in a school for boxers managed by onetime Heavyweight Tom Gibbons, he had worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Fargo, N. Dak. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where two years ago he won the most spectacular fight of his career against Jimmy McClarnin, ugly little Petrolle last week sat wrapped in his lucky Indian robe, scowling across the ring at a promising welterweight called Eddie Ran. Ran, knocked down three times in the first round...