Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid to appear, a redhaired, modest young man named Monroe "'Boston'' Strause, the current sensation of the pastry world. Son of a Los Angeles flour miller named Boston Monroe Strause, he uses his middle name as a kind of trademark. First in partnership with his Uncle Mike in the M. & M. Pie Co. of Los Angeles, "Boston" carried on when Mike quit. A friendly restaurateur helped him design cylindrical aluminum carrying racks for his pies, mahogany-trimmed pie trucks. "They were simply beautiful," Pieman Strause remembers, "just like Pullman cars...
...fight promotion began in 1934 when Madison Square Garden, longtime promoter of at least one annual boxing match for Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies, decided to discontinue that practice. Asked if he would stage a fight for the Milk Fund, Mike Jacobs, No. 1 Manhattan ticket speculator for a decade, promptly formed the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, became a fight promoter in opposition to the Garden. In 1935, after signing up a promising young Negro heavyweight named Joe Louis, he made $160,000 for the Milk Fund, $130,000 for the baseball parks where...
When last year he brought Max Schmeling from Germany to give hitherto undefeated Joe Louis a terrible beating, it did not jar Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of events was not considered by Jacobs to offer the maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago...
Habitual million-dollar gates died with Tex Rickard and the Coolidge boom. But Rickard, for all his promotional flair, never made the money out of the fight business that Mike Jacobs has. A peanut peddler and candy butcher on Coney Island excursion boats, Mike Jacobs first began doing business with Rickard in 1916 when Rickard moved into New York with the Jess Willard-Frank Moran championship fight. Jacobs bought up a huge block of tickets, paid Rickard a premium and sold them for a profit. Years later, as boxing promoter at Madison Square Garden, Rickard was supposed to have continued...
...ordering Broker Meehan barred from all U. S. stock exchanges. To the nervous little broker whose name in stockmarket history was written in Radio stock during the Coolidge bull market, the order will mean little in money, much in honor. His health broken by SEC's interminable proceedings, Mike Meehan has not been active for more than a year and a half...