Word: ace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans, including famed Marine Corps Ace Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington. Then he was challenged by a Japanese colonel who said, stiffly: "I have no authority to release these prisoners to you." Said Stassen: "Colonel, you have no authority, period." Stassen went sleepless for the first 70 hours; in 14 days he got 13,000 men to hospital ships...
...Virginia's Democratic primaries, a Negro came within an ace of being nominated to the state legislature. Lawyer Oliver W. Hill, one of 18 candidates for Richmond's seven lower-house seats, finished eighth with 6,310 votes, just 190 short of nomination. Said the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "We may as well accustom ourselves to the thought that the Negro citizens of the Old Dominion may send one of their number to the General Assembly before many years are past...
Face Lifter. Extremely shy, Mrs. Dodge had no liking for publicity. One of the few times her name appeared in print was in 1926, when she spent $50,000 backing a French flyer and famed War I ace, Captain René Fonck, in a transatlantic flight that never came off. Another was in 1930, when she paid a record-high fine of $213,286 for failing to declare the full value of trunksful of clothes and jewelry that she brought home from France. She was still largely unknown when in 1938 a U.S. Treasury report showed...
This week Evans and his partners (Saylor and three other Record men) brought out All-Negro Comics, a 48-page, 15? monthly, the first to be drawn by Negro artists and peopled entirely by Negro characters. Its star: "Ace Harlem," a Dick Tracy-like detective. The villains were a couple of zoot-suited, jive-talking Negro muggers, whose presence in anyone else's comics might have brought up complaints of racial "distortion." Since it was all in the family, Evans thought no Negro readers would mind...
Connolly, who had won three games out of four starts and was clearly the ace of the Crimson mound staff, was declared ineligible for intercollegiate competition by an Ivy League committee on April 15 for having "received funds to defray expenses for board and room while participating on a summer baseball team in the League...