Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities in Richmond, Va., James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney confessed that he had been a truant in his youth, and a persistent one: "To be a successful truant in a modern city requires considerable resourcefulness, as you people undoubtedly know...
Last August, onetime Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney, now chairman of $14,000,000 American Distilling Co., announced that his company was quitting the Distilled Spirits Institute because it was "without social consciousness or soul"; later he amplified his charges, said he found "something comic about a group which spends great sums to advertise the virtue of moderation and then breaks the backs of its representatives to make them meet impossible sales quotas...
...story of The Crowd Roars- otherwise chiefly notable because the hero does not win a championship-ringwise cinemaddicts will detect interesting similarities to the careers of two famed contemporary fisticuffers: Gene Tunney and Max Baer. Like Baer, the hero of The Crowd Roars kills an adversary in the ring. Like Tunney, he reads the classics, speaks careful English and falls in love with a socialite. Smooth direction by Richard Thorpe and a tightly integrated narrative, for which major credit goes to Screenwriter George Bruce, weld these and the rest of the paraphernalia of all fight films-bigshot gamblers, fight fixers...
James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, chairman of $14,000,000 American Distilling Co., announced that his company was quitting the Distilled Spirits Institute for good & all. His explanation: "It [the Institute] is more of a protective society than an institution for the elevation and betterment of the industry. . . . It is without social consciousness or soul...
Challenging Gargantua in order to test his theory. Pundit Tunney continued: "Unfortunately, I am no longer in fighting shape. However, I would like to take up the offer [said to have been made by Ringling Bros.] for any one of a dozen third-rate heavyweights I know...