Word: tunney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frequent charge against the Congress has been that an articulate and fast-stepping Communist minority has determined A. Y. C. policies, kept them lashed to the Communist Party line. One grown-up who is convinced that A. Y. C. is dominated by the Communists is ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney. In the attempt to get a "pro-American" bloc into the Congress, Mr. Tunney backed young Promotion Man Murray Plavner, who thought he could...
...prove that noise no more hampers a golfer than it does a baseballer or prize fighter, the onetime U. S. & British Open golf champion got three other golfers-Fellow Professional Jimmy Demaret, Amateurs Gene Tunney and Babe Ruth-to join him last week in an exhibition match (for charity) at the Shorehaven Golf Club near Norwalk, Conn...
With Fred Waring's noisiest musicians tooting & trumpeting at tee & green, with 5,000 spectators chattering, cheering and rattling the putter, Demaret & Ruth defeated Sarazen & Tunney, 2 & 1. Demaret shot a par 72, Sarazen 73, Ruth and Tunney 82 each. The gallery voted it more fun than a circus...
...Hamilton for refusing to send a Republican Party delegate to any Youth Congress meeting until it purged "Communistic elements which, according to the Dies Committee, dominate it." He had chided Mrs. Roosevelt for chiding Mr. Hamilton. He had made public an attack on the Congress signed by Gene Tunney and four other youngish men. And at this meet ing he had promised there would be action...
...Wilmington, Del., one day last week, went a handful of the 10,000-odd stockholders of Aviation and Transportation Corp. Gathered in its boardroom in the Corporation Guarantee & Trust Co., they helped elect three new directors (one of them bristle-maned ex-Champ Gene Tunney), asked a few questions, went their ways. Question none of them thought to ask was one that has been kicked around in the flying business like a sandlot soccer ball : what is ATCO going to do about simplifying its corporate structure...