Word: knockdown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tony Galento had won the goriest knockdown & drag-out since the days of the last-century bully boys...
Prime scandal of the 1938 primary season was-on the basis of excited statements last fortnight by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee (TIME, Aug. 8)-the knockdown, drag-out fight in Tennessee between the team of Senator George L. Berry & Governor Gordon Browning and the team of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor...
...largest grain elevator and merchandising enterprise in the U. S. Snapped the Board of Trade: "Today's action is final and is not subject to review by any other tribunal." But grain traders agreed last week that the event was only the first round of the best knockdown & dragout speculators' battle that has taken place behind the U. S. farmer's barn in many a harvest moon...
High point on the day's card was the slugging match between Shelly Ware of Eliot and Chris Landry of Leverett. It was Ware who scored the only knockdown of the afternoon when he threw his stocky opponent with what looked like a flying mare. Although Landry failed to capitalize on the Elephant's high guarding, he was awarded the decision after three rounds of heavy slugging on both sides...
...since Thomas Montgomery Howell tried unsuccessfully to corner corn six years ago has the Chicago grain market witnessed such a knockdown battle as took place last week. Though the nation's corn bins will soon overflow with the biggest corn crop since 1932, corn supplies last week were very low because last year's carryover was the smallest of this century. With deliveries of September corn futures due on Sept. 30, longs had the best opportunity in many a harvest moon to soak shorts...