Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court building in downtown Manhattan, prepared to testify that once he had been afraid to fight, had paid to be let off. Old Champion Dempsey's reputation for ferocious pugnacity remained unblemished. But as proprietor of big, flashy Jack Dempsey's Restaurant, across the street from Madison Square Garden, he had, according to the courtroom story of a State prosecutor, encountered an enemy more formidable than any Firpo or Tunney. It had appeared in the persons of hard-faced men who accosted him, snarled that it would be "healthier" for his restaurant if he joined their "association...
That statement, uttered early in the proceedings by Chairman Harold M. Wilkie. seemed to express the basic point of Governor Philip La Follette of Wisconsin, whose board of regents met last week in Madison to vote finally on the dismissal of Glenn Frank as president of the University of Wisconsin. All but four of the 15 regents had been appointed by Governor La Follette. When nine of them voted for an open hearing on Chairman Wilkie's charges against him, filed at last month's regents' meeting (TIME, Dec. 28), Dr. Frank knew he had only...
Harold Wilkie is a determined 46-year-old Madison lawyer. Hour after hour for two days he read and debated the 18,000-word bill of particulars that was to oust the best-known State university president in the land. According to Wilkie. Glenn Frank had miserably bungled or sidestepped vital educational problems in conducting the University, had permitted last spring's squabble between Athletic Director Walter Meanwell and Football Coach Clarence Spears to develop into a "public mess," had neglected his University responsibilities for too frequent lecturing outside Wisconsin, writing daily syndicated newspaper articles which had made...
Into New York's Madison Square Garden last week trouped the biggest crowd (17,200) that has ever watched a tennis match in the U. S. The attraction was California's long, ambling Ellsworth Vines, world's ablest professional since 1933, against England's sleek, light-footed Frederick John Perry, world's ablest amateur since 1933, making his professional debut...
...most recent story about the quarrel is that it is all a fight between the wives of the gentlemen in question. They are the first ladies of Madison. Mrs. Frank is very naively socially ambitious--she wants to make the big impression, and Mrs. LaFollette doesn't intend to be shown how on her home grounds by anyone. Apparently the mistresses of Madison's two mansions haven't been speaking for some little time...