Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pained that the War Department had seen fit to appeal first to the newspapers for news of its heroes, Aviators Post 743 of the American Legion in Manhattan- only post of Wartime flyers-was able to give most of the "missing" addresses. Ace Swaab, for instance, may be reached through the Hotel Roosevelt, New York. Ace Howard C. Knotts, credited with six planes, is in the law firm of Knotts & Knotts of Springfield, Ill., was secretary of last year's National Air Legislation Congress. Ace Arthur Ray Brooks has had his picture in many a rotogravure supplement as pilot...
...burgomaster, loathe to be counted out of a deal, doubled Mr. Schwarz, whose aversion to the rules of Work has been fostered by the police commissioner. The mayor then proceeded to trump his own ace by refusing to play with those notorious experts from La Grange Street, forgetting that their highest stake has never been but a few coppers...
...Manhattan next week, of larger interest than Scripps-Howard's purchase in El Paso will be its last purchase before that. The profession will be asking about, discussing the first "shakedown" figures on the daring purchase of the New York World by the S-H chain's ace, the New York Telegram...
...Ernst Udet was an ace second only to famed Baron von Richthofen. An Iron Cross man and squadron com-mander at the age of 22, he was credited with bringing down 62 Allied planes-by himself. Lately he has devoted himself to cinema, was featured as the flyer in Ufa's The White Hell of Pitz Palu...
...Emil Swenson of Minneapolis who accepted a court sentence rather than reveal secrets confided to him by a parish- ioner (TIME, March 16). The Press, which also hailed Pastor Swenson, last week hailed even more loudly a "martyr" of its own: youthful, dapper Edmond M. Barr, dramatic critic and ace newshawk of the Dallas Dispatch. Reporter Barr went to jail rather than break journalism's proud rule: Never expose your pipelines. Reporter Barr wrote for his paper of how two Communist organizers, C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, were taken from the city hall steps (immediately after their release...