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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detective Thomas J. Tunney of the New York City police department, brother of retired Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney,* was put on the trail of two unknown young men who had robbed an automobile of a $8,474 payroll, in the bright morning sun, near an entrance to Central Park, Manhattan. The young men were very bold about it, told the old man and the girl bookkeeper who were guarding the payroll to "Shut up." Detective Tunney, recently promoted, has a reputation of getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Yale Echoes | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Tunney brothers have a sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Yale Echoes | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Other arrangements for election night include music by the Harvardians Orchestra and motion pictures of the Tunney-Heeney fight are to be shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMPAIGNS and CANDIDATES | 10/10/1928 | See Source »

Mary Josephine Lauder, fiancee of retired Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney, sailed on the Saturnia for Italy, where a wedding loomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Fight. The first audiences at The Big Fight were composed in large part of dapper and gruesome characters who in no way resembled the admirers of Gene Tunney. It is claimed that among the good qualities of its star, famed Pugilist Jack Dempsey, is the ability to remember persons who "remember him when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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