Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people should have had was of a rawboned farm boy with a fine, useful mind and a rare way with airplanes. He had an infectious grin that made vertical wrinkles up & down his weatherbeaten cheeks (as it still does). Around St. Louis, where he flew the St. Louis-Chicago mail run in fair and foul weather with calculated cunning, he had got along well-with reporters, had figured often in the news and liked...
...Also the birthplace of the late Anton J. Cermak, mayor of Chicago, assassinated in Florida six years ago. There also Czechoslovakia's first and revered President, Thomas G. Masaryk, made his first political speech...
...singles play, their records have been identical too. Crooked-nosed Chet, No. 1 singles player on the Chicago squad, has been defeated just once in the past three years. So has straight-nosed Bill, No. 2 singles player. Although they are good enough to have a national ranking* (mainly because of a doubles victory over Davis Cuppers Bobby Riggs and Bitsy Grant in the famed Seabright tournament last summer), the Murphy twins have no intention of becoming "tennis bums" (amateur players who tour the circuit of bigtime tournaments and live on the clubs' "expense accounts"). They want jobs...
...Chicago, the Hotel Association announced a new guest service: a dummy in impeccable full dress to unjinx dinner parties...
...Bingham stated that the eliminations in the budget were proposed for financial reasons. The vital Varsity football gate receipts on the 1938-39 schedule were not as large as anticipated. Returns on the 1939-40 season are also expected to be below par because of games with Chicago, New Hampshire and Bates...