Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...added last week. Fox Theatres sued him and six of his friends & kin for $5,000,000 last fortnight (TIME, July 4). Fox Film Corp, last week sued to recover possibly $10,000,000 from Filman Fox, Jack G. Leo, a former vice president, and partners in M. J. ("Mike") Meehan's brokerage house, which handled many a Fox pool. A sister-in-law, Mrs. Aaron Fox, came forward too, with a $250,000 suit in behalf of her children...
...many questions about boxing and also about my life at Oxford. The Prince is a staunch Oxonian. . . ." Tex Rickard and many another pro moter invited Eddie Eagan to turn pro fessional. Unlike most good amateur fighters, Eddie Eagan did not do it. but he trained with famed prizefighters like Mike McTigue, Gene Tunney. Cat-footed, slow and soft of speech, gentle as a St. Bernard, he is recognized and received in social and sporting circles almost as though he had been the Champion...
Radio. Headline writers last week called the Radio pool of 1929 "The Raskob Pool." Wall Street snorted, knowing full well that shrewd, red-haired Michael J. Meehan, Radio specialist on the Floor, had engineered it. Mike Meehan in 1928 had whipped Radio from $85.25 to over $500 a share (when it was split...
...carry a big stick," were his first instructions, for the inmates were desperate men, and their treatment was desperate too. Total silence was enforced, the work-gang shuffled from & back to their cells. But it was from these same creatures who once were men, Old Chappleau at Clinton, and Mike the Rat Catcher later on, that Warden Lawes learned new penological lessons behind the parallel bars...
Died. Paddy Mullins, 70, oldtime boxing manager (Harry Wills, Mike McTigue, Gunboat Smith) of heart disease; in Brooklyn. Having long sought a bout between Wills and Dempsey, Paddy Mullins once accused Dempsey of backing down, called him a liar, offered to thrash...