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Word: chancey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Martin Chancey, secretary of the local unit of the Communist Party, asked Attorney-General Frank Murphy today to investigate the "lawless, terroristic and dishonest," actions of the Dies Committee...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/11/1939 | See Source »

...narrow cubicle beneath the wing, Engineers Chancey B. Wright and Victor A. Wright (no kin) alternated at tending the fuel tanks, engines, temperature. On the bridge, First Officer Robert Oliver Daniel Sullivan took turns at the controls with Second Officer George King. Directly behind sat Radio Officer William Turner Jarboe, maintaining constant touch with the directional radio beam the airliner follows. Standing nearby over a chart table was Chief Navigation Officer Frederick J. Noonan. Also there was the tight-mouthed, round-shouldered, meticulous man who is Pan American's No. 1 pilot. No. 1 Pilot. Son of a hardware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transpacific | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...evening gown of native design. As the music grew faster and the dance grew hotter, she stripped off her dress bit by bit, finally emerged in a skirt and brassière of tobacco leaves-about enough to make six cigars (see cut). Later Governor Sholtz of Florida, Mayor Chancey of Tampa and many another bigwig attended a banquet in honor of a few feeble old cigarmakers who still remembered Señor Don Gavino Gutierrez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cigar Celebration | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

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