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Thereupon Miss Stinson went on to relate that her ex-husband had told her of having received with the Attorney General gifts of stock and cash for permitting interstate transportation of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight films, etc. She said, when he went to Washington, his property was worth $150,000 to $175,000 and that he denied his estate was worth $250,000. He had had no business in the meantime, but she insisted that he had steadily improved his fortune, although he was an unsuccessful stock speculator, after going to Washington...
Percy Hammond: "Scientifically, The Outsider is, as Mr. Dempsey would say, 'the bunk.' . . . But Mr. Atwill is gorgeous as the quack-doctor; and Miss Cornell's realization of the passionate lame girl seems a perfect thing. I suspect she knows more about honest acting than any of the other actors of today...
...evening dress. From Manhattan it has been reported that Promoter Rickard will aid in pushing this Chilean to the top next Summer. Romero "is to receive $7,500 for his first bout [in the U. S.] with substantial increases if he makes good." When-and if-he fights Champion Dempsey, $100,000 will...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt (Alice Gwynne), largest individual taxpayer in Newport: "I wrote a letter to the Mayor of Newport protesting against the proposed Dempsey-Wills boxing bout to be held there next summer. Said I: 'I strongly disapprove of the project. I feel that it would not tend to the improvement nor advancement of the city...
Luis Angel Firpo, "Pampas bull": "Under my signature in The New York World, I wrote that on the 14th of September [the night I fought Dempsey] I was not even in condition to face a sick...