Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Story. Fully aware of the rumors that had escaped the ears of Franklin Roosevelt, the Post Gazette sent its eccentric, middleaged, ace political factfinder, Ray Sprigle, to Alabama to investigate the story as soon as Hugo Black was nominated. For Reporter Sprigle-who affects Western sombreros, carries a silver-ringed cane and likes nothing better than a job of conscientious muckraking-the assignment was a treat. His first dispatches were routine stories which contained principally the information that the Klan had supported Hugo Black in the 1926 election. Original plan was to run the articles before Justice Black could...
...Officer: Baron von Richthofen, Germany's No. 1 War ace...
Biding his time, vindictive Sap struck, and last week came within an ace of wrecking Paul van Zeeland's entire political career. By no means wealthy, Paul van Zeeland is nevertheless Europe's only banker-Premier. He served as secretary, director and later as vice governor of the Banque Nationale de Belgique for many years, but punctiliously resigned his post on assuming the Premiership...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Gomez, 67, mother of ace New York Yankee Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez; in Rodeo, Calif...
...with the plane. The cable stood the shock of the 950-h.p. machine moving at 100 miles per hour. It held the remains of the plane, checked its speed, and, relatively speaking, eased it to the ground. With a scratch on his left arm the German ace stepped out of the wreck...