Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ingalls for Governor? What was generally assumed to be a preliminary move in the Hoover campaign occurred last week when in Washington Assistant Secretary of the Navy David Sinton Ingalls, Taft grandnephew and War ace, announced his intention to run for Governor of Ohio. He will, with the backing of National Committeeman Maurice Maschke and the Cleveland machine, seek the Republican nomination in the May primaries against two or more strong rivals. If successful there, he will go into the November election against popular Democratic Governor George White. President Hoover gave the Ingalls candidacy his blessing, on the theory that...
...confused with the late great Princeton hockey player, footballer and War ace Hobart ("Hobey") Amory Hare Baker...
Unfortunately for Harworth he is forced into choosing Molina (who strongly resembles Scarf ace Capone); he finds himself unwilling accessory to a killing, soon realizes that he is caught between the millstones of gang warfare. When Molina falls, Harworth goes with him. If cinema audiences continue to favor gang pictures, The Silver Eagle should make money as a film...
...their conviction that college football games for any kind of charity, no matter how worthy the cause, tend distinctly toward commercialism which is undoubtedly the greatest single man-ace of college sports today...
Lieut. Ernst Udet was, next to Baron von Richthofen, the highest German ace in the War. He brought down 62 Allied planes, earned the nickname "Wasp" for his habit of attacking one plane in a squadron, escaping before the others could reach him. Now called "Flea" for his energetic hopping about Europe, baldish. blue-eyed Herr Udet resumed his waspish characteristics on the first day of the National Air Races at Cleveland last week...