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...seven years of professional boxing, Louis has earned close to $2,000,000 in purses (split 50-50 with his managers, after deducting training expenses). He owns $400,000 worth of real estate in Detroit and Chicago, has a $250,000 annuity, and has set up his kinfolk in various business enterprises. When he finally quits the ring, the Champ will retire to his 800-acre dude farm outside Detroit - "a place for my people"-which he hopes to turn into a profitable resort...
When the party split into two main factions, Trotskyist and Stalinist, Vincent Dunne became a Trotskyist, joined other Minnesota Trotskyists under the banner of the Socialist Workers Party...
...settled dislike for union labor. Against that contempt Vincent Dunne hurled himself, with Brothers Grant and Miles by his side. They organized the truck drivers of the city, got a charter from Dan Tobin's A.F. of L. teamsters, and in 1934 staged two historic strikes. Heads were split, blood spilled, men killed; the employers' hard-boiled Citizens' Alliance was badly beaten. Trade unionism under the Dunne Brothers flourished in Minneapolis from then...
...been $1,000 a week, said they would live on Ship's insurance commissions, at least until she comes into her $3,500,000 next year. He gave her a diamond-paved cabochon emerald ring. She said they would live obscurely. Dancers Tony and Renee de Marco seemed split for good when Renee left Manhattan last week, bound for "Florida ... or Reno." Maritally separated since 1938, they danced together until a few weeks ago. Now Veteran Tony, 41, has a new dancing partner, Sally Craven, whom he describes as "the kind of girl you want to . . . cuddle." Maria Farkas...
...Rhineland: according to a large body of opinion it took place in March 1934, not 1936." On the evils of the Versailles Treaty and post-war diplomacy, the authors go hard on France, easy on Britain. Politically unclassifiable, Graves & Hodge are proLabor, but regard the Left-Right split as a continental import inapplicable to British life. In their lusty cosmogony they class pacifists with nudists and hikers...