Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having fortnight ago appointed James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney to be his aide-de-camp with the rank of major, Governor-elect Cross last week remarked: "The question is whether Tunney will go into politics. I hope he will, for he would be the strongest leader of the House or Senate that could sit in Hartford...
Your sketch of Mr. J. J. Tunney's earnings 1926-27, and Mr. Mara's idea of the amount due him (TIME, Nov. 17), reminds me of the days when kings offered half their kingdoms- and now Mr. Hoff and his claim, if granted, would make Mr. Tunney's victories as expensive as the horse Richard III called...
These demands for services rendered and of promises to pay have a similitude to a Detroit hold-up or kidnapping rather than the result of Mr. Tunney's "facility of forgetting those who have been useful in the past...
Elected. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, fisticuffer, to be an honorary member of "The Pundits," Professor William Lyon Phelp's Yale literary club...
...James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney; the suit brought against him by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, promoter, for 25% ($526,812) of Fisticuffer Tunney's earnings, in return for alleged service's of "fixing" politicians, publicity "build ups" et al. (TIME, Nov. 17). Next week Fisticuffer Tunney will defend a similar suit brought by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia "fixer...