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...evening last week at the White House a mixed group sat down to dinner with President & Mrs. Roosevelt. They included Presidential Widow Wilson, Mr. & Mrs. Gene Tunney, Tobaccoman & Mrs. S. Clay Williams, Mrs. Roosevelt's friend Nancy Cook, Tax Expert Roswell Magill just appointed Under Secretary of the Treasury, and Wallstreeter Earle Bailie who might have had Mr. Magill's job three years ago if the Senate would have ratified his appointment. But if Franklin Roosevelt was inwardly amused at his guest list, it was not these guests who entertained him. He must have chuckled to himself...
...Champion Dempsey's reputation for ferocious pugnacity remained unblemished. But as proprietor of big, flashy Jack Dempsey's Restaurant, across the street from Madison Square Garden, he had, according to the courtroom story of a State prosecutor, encountered an enemy more formidable than any Firpo or Tunney. It had appeared in the persons of hard-faced men who accosted him, snarled that it would be "healthier" for his restaurant if he joined their "association." A healthy restaurant, Proprietor Dempsey knew, was one whose waiters and cooks were not called out on strike, which was not stink-bombed...
Entertained by the personal reminiscences of Gene Tunney, remarks by Dick Harlow, Tom Bolles, Jim Gaffney, and Bill Bingham, 150 former "H" men gathered for their annual banquet in the Varsity Club last night...
...dinner which has attracted more interest than any previous annual gathering of H men. The dinner has been arranged by Richard C. Floyd '11, president of the Club, who has named Leo H. Leary '05 as the toastmaster and has arranged for an excellent list of speakers including Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champion; William J. Bingham, Richard C. Harlow, and Thomas Bolles, newly appointed head coach of Harvard rowing...
Announcing the death of Life after a valiant fight, Mr. Maxwell declared: "We cannot claim, like Mr. Tunney, that we resigned our championship undefeated in our prime. But at least we hope to retire gracefully from a world still friendly...