Word: welshman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training camp at Pompton Lakes, N. J., where Champion Joe Louis was training for his fight with Welshman Tommy Farr, went his conqueror, onetime Champion Max Schmeling...
What he had been describing was a fight between onetime World Heavyweight Champion Max Adelbert Baer and a stolid 23-year-old Welshman named Tommy Farr. For winning decisively, becoming the first British heavyweight to attract international attention since Phil Scott (retired 1931), Farr got a purse of $15,000, offers of fights with Walter Neusel, Bob Pastor, John Henry Lewis, Max Schmeling...
...they had to distribute such information as that in the House of Commons last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet was shouted at by War-time Prime Minister David Lloyd George in words which could scarcely fail to vex Il Duce. "Stand up to Mussolini!", roared the Welshman. "Earn some respect for Britain! ... I'd rather have Italy's anger than Italy's contempt." As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members of His Majesty's Government ignored a Laborite M. P. who attempted the role of Cassandra...
...political and civil dynamite represented by the bootleggers and the citizenry whose prosperity rests on their outlaw profits. At his side last week stumped the "King of the Bootleggers," 33-year-old Earl Humphrey, who claims 15.000 'leggers in his Independent Miners & Truckers Association. A slim, shrewd, explosive Welshman who lost a leg in a mine accident, 'Legger Humphrey cried: "We will welcome any impartial investigation by the State Legislature. But any effort by the big coal operators or the State to stamp us out by force will lead inevitably to bloodshed...
...established last week that Edward VIII, a few hours before reading his Abdication broadcast, asked his three closest remaining attendants to accompany him to Austria, and they all gave the Duke quiet, steady-eyed refusals. His personal private secretary of 15 years, Sir Godfrey Thomas, an astute Welshman with a standing (and perhaps a future) in the British diplomatic service, simply "vanished." His personal bodyguard, Chief Inspector David Storier, vainly tried at Scotland Yard to get let off from guarding the Duke of Windsor. Both Mrs. Simpson and the Duke separately tried to retain the services of Chauffeur George Stanley...