Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of events was not considered by Jacobs to offer the maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago. The Garden's long control over the heavyweight fight industry was out for the count of ten when Braddock, its erstwhile "Cinderella...
...Coolidge boom. But Rickard, for all his promotional flair, never made the money out of the fight business that Mike Jacobs has. A peanut peddler and candy butcher on Coney Island excursion boats, Mike Jacobs first began doing business with Rickard in 1916 when Rickard moved into New York with the Jess Willard-Frank Moran championship fight. Jacobs bought up a huge block of tickets, paid Rickard a premium and sold them for a profit. Years later, as boxing promoter at Madison Square Garden, Rickard was supposed to have continued the practice on a far larger scale. By controlling...
...legal profession, found it discouraging. With a U. S. Negro population of 11,890,000 there are but 1,247 Negro lawyers. Of the largest group, Washington, D. C.'s 225, over half are "sun-downers"' who work at political jobs days and practice law evenings. New York City has 112 Negro lawyers, mostly in Harlem. In the entire South there are but 200. Southern Negroes are either too poor to pay a lawyer or else are likely to feel a white lawyer can do better for them in the courts. "The future is often cloudy and even...
...conclusion of the World War the famed Antwerp zoo was sadly depleted. New York's comradely N. Y. Zoological Park shipped to Antwerp 325 birds and animals. Thus, when Dr. William Reid Blair, genial director of the Zoological Park, made a bid for the Buta okapi, the Belgian Government saw fit to repay past kindness by giving him to Dr. Blair at a price far below that offered. But the okapi did not immediately leave Buta. In view of the indifferent success a few zoos have had in keeping them, Dr. Blair decided to let his okapi become accustomed...
Died. Darwin Rush James, 64, president of Manhattan's East River Savings Bank, chairman of the New York State Housing Board; after a heart attack; in Riverhead...