Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats was $250 for two. Day after the fight, Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote a lead: "You are now listening to the most reassuring sound...
Statements like these last week, two weeks before Max Baer and Joe Louis come to blows in New York, were a fair sample of the ballyhoo which has for the last month preceded the most exciting prizefight since Dempsey met Tunney in 1927. Whether newspapers publicize prizefights because the public likes fights or whether the public likes fights because the newspapers publicize them is one of the many riddles of pugilism. No riddle is the fact that while newspaper readers were last week absorbing the details of Negro Louis' romance with a dusky Chicago stenographer named Marva Trotter, whom...
...rare interview in 1929. George Morrow remarked: "We are like Tunney. We have never been beaten." At that time the statement was true. The Brothers Morrow, having migrated to Manhattan from a farm near Toronto, had taken a hand in Gold Dust Corp., been enormously successful in revamping American Cotton Oil Co., had built up an enviable reputation as smart corporate reorganizers. After 1929 the Morrows were once set back on their heels when United Cigar Stores, which they controlled, went bankrupt. But their troubles with United Cigar did not prevent them from acquiring another damaged retail chain last year...
...problem by which more aspiring heavyweights had been floored. After all, he had knocked out Tommy Loughran when Loughran was still the world's ablest boxer of his weight. Attracted by this line of reasoning, the biggest crowd that has watched a Chicago fight since the second Tunney-Dempsey set-to, a wildly eager 40,000 that included six State Governors (Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan), a sprinkling of socialites, most of the underworld, and 1,000 police with tear gas and Thompson sub-machineguns, crowded into Comiskey Park to see the excitement...
...learn that his 800 words fall short of Herbert Hoover's 1,100, he can reflect that he plays the leading role in 850 words on NRA. Other counts: Theodore Roosevelt, 1,400; Wilson, 1,350; Lenin. 1,050; Mussolini, 850; Hitler, 750; Einstein, 400; Chaplin, 180; Tunney...