Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop the fight at any time if the patient felt badly. In the opposite corner sat Jim Maloney, hairy, amiable and hog-fat, who lost a ten-round bout with Jack Sharkey five years ago when Maloney was considered a fighter. Last autumn with the aid of a hometown referee Maloney took a decision from Carnera in Boston. Carnera had to even the score if he was to get anything out of his proposed match with the winner of next summer's W. L. Stribling-Max Schmeling bout...
...President Warren Gamaliel Harding would turn his head 90°, would henceforth offer his full face to view on the brown 1½?stamps. Reason: many people did not fancy the profile of the 29th President. The new stamps will be put on sale first in the Harding hometown, Marion, Ohio; will be further distributed as the old ones are exhausted. The denomination is used chiefly on unsealed folders...
...Stockholm dental clinic will be Mr. Eastman's fourth institution of the sort. First and model for the others is at Rochester, N. Y., his hometown, recipient of more than half his philanthropies. The Rochester Dental Dispensary was started in 1917 under direction of Dr. Harvey Jacob Burkhart, 69, onetime (1899) president of the National Dental Association, two-time (1902-04, 1915-16) mayor of Batavia, N. Y. Dr. Burkhart, who has Mr. Eastman's unqualified trust, arranged the organization of the other two Eastman dental institutions-at London and Rome. He is to buy all their equipment...
...Tommy Freeman, Cleveland welterweight: the world's championship of his class on the decision of a hometown referee in a 15-round bout with flashy black Jack Thompson of Oakland, Calif, who had him on the floor in the second round, made him reel in the seventh, and kept on even terms with him all through...
Elected. Henry Louis Mencken, babbitt-baiting editor of the American Mercury: to honorary membership in the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery, Ala., hometown of Miss Sara Haardt whom he last fortnight engaged to marry...