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...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...
Millard Fillmore Hopper learned his first checkers in a Greenwich Village recreation centre while his friend from around the block, Gene Tunney, was learning to box. Big Gene Tunney retired as heavyweight champion of the world in 1928. Featherweight Millard Hopper, at 43, is still going strong as unrestricted ("go-as-you-please"*) checker champion of the U. S. Last summer at the New York World's Fair he set up a booth, took on all comers, sometimes a dozen at a time, played some 5,000 games, lost three...
...distinctions of being retired unbeaten world's heavyweight boxing champion and a friend of the literary great, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney added the honor of being one of the best-hatted men of 1939, so chosen by Hat Style Council, Inc., which presented him with an assortment of a dozen...
...sophisticated melodrama is "Rio", elevated to its position as a far-better-than-usual second feature by the acting of Basil Rathbone; while the dresses that Sigrid Gurie wears might even bring the bald headed sugar daddies back to the front row. Gene Tunney is the star of the Information Please short...
...Nazi ideals which I thought existed but could not bring myself to believe was really there." (Snapped Hugh Johnson next day at Mrs. Roosevelt: "That is exactly the kind of stuff that got us into the war in 1917.") Plainer people began to sound off. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney called Lindbergh's speech "impertinence." Michigan's Senator Prentiss Brown called it imperialistic. A Reserve Officer chaplain in Seattle spoke of "Herr von Lindbergh." Sculptor Suzanne Silvercruys of New York City told Canadians she was glad her memorial commemorating Lindbergh's Paris flight had been broken...