Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspapers printed all the war news they could get. In the East it crowded most other news off the front pages. The supposed suicide of Bolivia's Strongman German Busch and the death of Sidney Howard (see p. 39) got brief treatment the day after Russia and Germany signed their Non-Aggression Pact. But there were exceptions. The Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger thought the second indictment of Moe Annenberg* was equally big news that day and gave a four-column headline to it. And throughout the week the New York Herald Tribune consistently played down the bad news, played...
Last week, after two years in Body-Builder Hoffman's gymnasium-lifting the bar bells he helped manufacture*-20-year-old Steve Stanko, standing 6 feet tall and weighing 220 Ibs., was recognized as the No. 1 strongman of the U. S. Competing in the national weight-lifting championships at Chicago, against the pick of some 1,000,000 U. S. residents who lift bar bells for exercise, Stanko made all the other contestants look like parlor performers...
...bell-an iron rod seven feet long with removable iron discs on each end (so that weights can be increased or decreased)-is the yardstick of a strongman's brawn...
...after they have paid up all of a $20 fee for lessons), stop stating that his course relieves skin diseases and constipation, tone down his claims that he can make his customers look something like himself ("World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" in a leopardskin loincloth). Hopping mad, Strongman Atlas gritted: "Why don't they leave me alone with all the important work I got to do in the world? I really think I'm doing the cleanest work of any man livin' today...
...known that the defeated Rightist candidate, on his way to Europe, stopped off in Buenos Aires to confer with General Carlos Ibáñez, onetime Strongman of Chile, who was implicated in the Nacista uprising and is regarded by some Rightists as their white hope for another revolt. At week's end, back to Chile flew General Ibanez, presumably with President Aguirre's permission. He was welcomed by several thousand cheering Nacistas in their green shirts and military caps...