Mises Wire
Author:
Rob Weir
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Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. The Setting Sunday, January 23, 1921. It was a good day to watch a fight. An audience of thirty-five hundred packed the Lexington Theater in midtown Manhattan. What was the fare for the afternoon? A boxing match? A wrestling bout? A martial arts exhibition? No, this was something else.