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...machinery by making clear that Switzerland, no matter what engagements she assumes or has assumed as a member of the League, will preserve as paramount to her safety "the historic principle of Swiss neutrality." This was a high-flown way of saying that bantamweight Switzerland must and will let middleweight Italy buy from or across her whatever Dictator Mussolini imperatively demands...
...Irish in Us" is really quite a pleasant experience. While it drags in places through unimaginative treatment, Jimmy Cagney brings much spirit to his performance. He falls in love with his brother's girl and wins her when he substitutes for the challenger in a fight against the middleweight champion. In a battle which had the lady in the seat next to us gripping the arms of the seat in tense anticipation, Jimmy proved that he is an astounding boxer...
...years ago he bought a Belgian middleweight prizefighter named Rene DeVos, introduced him to U. S. pugilism at a smart hotel party. Plug-ugly guests disappeared with quantities of silverware and fine wine, did their best to make off with a piano. In 1929 he and some associates plopped a swank Casino in the middle of Manhattan's Central Park. Accommodated with a modest rental by Mayor "Jimmy" Walker, the Casino has been under fire almost ever since for its undemocratic prices, its oversized profits...
Ambushed at the door of his home, beaten and hospitalized with painful injuries was Mayor James M, O'Brien of Revere, Mass. Held in $5,000 bail, charged with assault with intent to murder was Robert Jasse, New England's onetime middleweight boxing champion, laid off by Mayor O'Brien as chief of the Suffolk Downs race track special police, who had been heard to say at Revere's City Hall that he had been "tossed around enough," that when he saw the Mayor he would "tear him apart." Next day the convalescent Mayor lay abed...
Handsome, dark-haired. Polish. Champion Yarosz plans a long rest, followed by a bout against Marcel Thil of France, recognized by the International Boxing Federation as world's middleweight champion. Said Dundee: "A hometown decision. . . . I was robbed...