Word: basham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whitney's housewives sniffed the spirit of change, suddenly rebelled. After years of submissively sidestepping the bench and its occupants (some of whom had a roving eye and a ribald tongue), a delegation of housewives called on young Mayor Fred Basham and told him to do something about it. The mayor agreed. One morning Whitney's oldtimers discovered, with cackling chagrin, that their sanctuary had been ignominiously lugged into a nearby alley. They angrily drew up a petition asking that it be put back. Cried one: "They done it in the night like a thief-if that bench...
Airman's Penalty. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Board struck hard at this form of high jinks, served notice that it was going to keep on being tough about it. To Ernest E. Basham Sr., 56-year-old chief test pilot for Consolidated Aircraft at Fort Worth, the board handed out a stiff penalty: total revocation of his airline-transport-pilot certificate. That means he may not fly, and CAB sources said grimly that he would probably stay grounded for two years. Pilot Basham had been found guilty of twice flying B-24 Liberator bombers less than 500 feet...