Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cool and impassive in the ring, Devil Montanez is impatient, ferocious, temperamental to a degree outside of it. Last week he invited hundreds of denizens of New York's Negro and Spanish quarter, where he lives, to a "victory ball" at 50? and 75? a head. Before the fight he had decorated a hall with huge banners proclaiming his triumph...
Major U. S. track meets seldom fail to produce a world's record. Last week's produced three: 8:48.6 for the 3,000-metre steeplechase, by Indiana's Tommy Deckard; 1:59.7 for the 1,000-metre medley relay, by the New York Curb Exchange team; and 6 ft. 9¼ in. for the high jump-only ½ in. lower than the outdoor world's record, held jointly by Negroes Cornelius Johnson and Dave Albritton-by Marquette's Negro Sophomore Edward Burke, handicapped by a slightly twisted knee...
...Three professional Cuban baseball teams, representing the Cuban Army, the Havana Sporting Club and the Cuban Almendares Club: by 7-to-4, 9-to-1 and 6-to-1; their games against last year's pennant-winning New York Giants, starting their spring training; at Havana...
...tribute to the lucidity of cotton textile spokesmen that during the last two years the studious New York Times failed to acknowledge that the Japanese import menace, about which William Randolph ("Buy American") Hearst seemed perennially overexcited, might actually materialize. One of the first alarms sufficiently well expressed to convince laymen was written for the Times last August by President Claudius Temple Murchison of the Cotton-Textile Institute. Last week President Murchison arrived in New York from San Francisco, marched modestly into the Hotel McAlpin to tell a gathering of U. S. textile men how an excellent formulation of their...
...would be delighted by a private settlement in which the pomps of diplomacy were not involved. Mr. Sayre talked it over with Ambassador Saito at the Japanese Embassy. Dr. Murchison proceeded to organize a committee. At high noon the day before Christmas, President Murchison, Manufacturers Harry Bailey of New York, Donald Comer of Alabama, Casson Callaway of Georgia and Cotton's Editor Bob Philip sailed from San Francisco for Japan...