Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. Relegated to a back seat when John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization took over his decrepit little craft union and set out to make it a great industrial union of all the nation's steelworkers (TIME, June 15 et seq.), reactionary old Mike Tighe offered ill health as reason for his resignation, actually got out before the union's new blood voted...
...York Van Wyck. One of his uncles. Robert Van Wyck, was elected mayor of New York City in 1898. Same year, another uncle, Augustan Van Wyck, was defeated for Governor of New York by Roosevelt I. General Hoke wanted his son to become a civil engineer like himself. "Mike" obeyed, took a C. E. degree at the University of North Carolina. Having thus complied with family authority, he proceeded to study medicine at the University of Virginia, to establish himself in Atlanta as a general surgeon. Restless, he went to Boston for post-graduate study in orthopedics, returned to Atlanta...
...consultants. Five years ago Dr. Hoke was asked to become Surgeon-in-Chief. He took up residence in Warm Springs' Little White House, which he regularly vacated each Thanksgiving to make room for the President. White House correspondents quickly made Dr. '"Mike" Hoke's name familiar throughout the land...
Last week Dr. "Mike" got restless again. He was "bored by routine." "needed a change." Abruptly he quit Georgia Warm...
Last week was the busiest of the season for peewee pugilistic pundits. On the same program as the Canzoneri v. Ambers fight was one between the New York State Athletic Commission's nominee for world's featherweight champion, Mike Belloise, and England's Dave Crowley. It ended in the ninth round when the referee refused to allow Crowley's claim of foul, counted him out instead. Four nights before in Manhattan, fiery little Sixto Escobar of Puerto Rico improved his claim to the world's bantamweight title by forcing his opponent, Pittsburgh's Tony...