Word: strongmanism
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...last week declared winner by 45 votes. Candidate Church announced he would run independently in November on the issue of whether Nominee Simpson should "be sent to Congress to stifle the investigation of the two-billion-dollar Insull wreckage," Candidate Simpson's father having meantime been called in as strongman to run the Insull operating companies...
...third group, specializing in wrestlers of more advanced age like Ed ("Strangler") Lewis, Joe Stecher, the Zbyszko Brothers, John Pesek, is operated on the Pacific Coast by Billy Sandow, onetime circus strongman. Its champion, until recently, was Strangler Lewis, who last winter became an independent performer and engaged in a match against Champion De Glane in which he was disqualified for biting...
Bernarr Macfadden, 63, who started life as a puny Missouri hillbilly, who made himself into a professional strongman and later a millionaire publisher on the body-love theme, last week arranged to perpetuate his fame and elevate his prestige. Even as John D. Rockefeller improved the odor of his oil millions by establishing the Rockefeller Foundation for medical research, so Mr. Macfadden decided to exalt physical culture by establishing a Bernarr Macfadden Foundation. The endowment : $5,000,000 interest in Macfadden real estate and publications {Physical Culture Magazine which has currently become dignified- TIME, Sept. 21; Liberty, True Story...
...shoes are size 21½ and weigh 7½ lb. apiece. His collars are size 24, his hats 12¾. He used to be a wrestler but switched to boxing because he found no one willing to wrestle with him. Once at a country fair, annoyed by a strongman, he picked the strongman up, spanked him, was hailed as a fighter. He has fought a year and one-half, won 14, lost none. In the U. S. he will be managed by one William Duffy, sly Manhattan fixer and his partner Peter ("the goat") Stone...
Last week Col. Luke Lea, onetime "baby of the U. S. Senate," bought the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal. Abetted by Rogers Caldwell, Nashville capitalist, Col. Lea is looked upon as a special strongman in journalism and politics of the middle south. His papers: Nashville Tennesseean (morning and evening), Memphis Commercial Appeal, Memphis Evening Appeal, Atlanta Constitution* Knoxville Journal. He tried to buy the Kansas City Star, but his $12,000,000 bid was rejected...