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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joined the hue & cry. Majority Leader Barkley got in touch with Harry Hopkins. That very day the campaign manager of Governor "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky (a candidate this year for Barkley's Senate seat) had published a letter to President Roosevelt in which he charged, with affidavits to match, that WPA jobs in Kentucky were only for Barkley voters. Said Mr. Barkley, specially anxious to quell the storm of poll-priming indignation...
...Challenging City Prosecutor Ralph E. Purves to a boxing match. When Prosecutor Purves declined, the mayor for no good reason boxed four well-photographed rounds with a Masked Marvel, knocked the Marvel down four times...
Primary portents: 1) Joe Guffey's control of 6,000 Federal jobs plus his much mooted control over 230,000 WPA jobs is still no match for the regular organization controlling 27,000 State jobs. 2) John L. Lewis' 800,000 C. I. O. enrollment in Pennsylvania produced only 520,000 Kennedy votes. 3) Republicans in re-nominating Senator James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis and nominating Judge Arthur H. James for Governor over 72-year-old Gifford Pinchot cast 135,000 more votes than Democrats...
Underdog Kainrath, Chicago team captain and a violinist in his spare time, did not let his townsmen down. With grim determination, he made the bantamweight match the most exciting of the evening. Ducking Sergo's wild swings and peppering him with well-timed punches and counterpunches, Chicago's Kainrath clearly won all three rounds...
Most impressive European turned out to be a tall Pole named Antoni Kolczynski, 20-year-old Warsaw welterweight, who knocked down the idol of Chicago, A. A. U. and Golden Gloves Champion Jimmy O'Malley, so many times in the first round that the referee stopped the match. Awarded the only knockout (technical) of the evening, Kolczynski simply shrugged his shoulders. He had knocked out 37 of his 65 previous opponents, had beaten the champions of Norway, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Finland and Eire...