Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went Dry politically only when Ohio did. When President Hoover picked him, a staid Anti-Saloon Leaguer, to head the national committee, many an observer concluded that the President was preparing to seek re-election in 1932 as a thoroughgoing Dry, was already consolidating the Dry forces in command of the national machine. It was even suspected that this move was designed to block the rising power and prestige of that potent Wet presidential possibility, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Republican Senatorial nominee in New Jersey. The Grand Old Party might, it seemed, become an organization of Grand Old Prohibitors...
...bursting because of the sudden pressure release. The fabric of the starboard fin let go, as the port had done. After a minute of severe tossing the R-100 was again master, plowing ahead on an even keel. The laconic log-entry by Squadron Leader R. S. Booth, in command: "Ship's height varied rapidly between...
...vegetable, a combination of green pepper and tomato which his wife, Lilyan Tash- man, named "topepo." He plays good golf, dislikes radio, is fond of wearing yellow gloves, goes to church every Sunday. His best part was the tough top-sergeant in What Price Glory. Other pictures: The Silent Command, The Fool, The Cock Eyed World, Through Different Eyes...
Derby. Pilot Lee Gehlbach, whose low-wing Command-Aire set the pace throughout most of the All-American Air Derby (TIME, Aug. 4) finished an easy winner at Detroit last week, took the $15,000 first prize. His elapsed time for the 5,541-mi. flight around the continent: 43 hr. 35 min. 30 sec. Lowell Bayless, flying a Gee-Bee biplane, came second, four hours slower; Charles Meyers in a Great Lakes, third. Eight of the original 18 starters were forced to abandon the race...
...Derby for planes powered by 100-h. p. American Cirrus engines, finished at Los Angeles the first half of a 7,000-mi. round-the-continent race, headed east to complete the circle in Detroit. In the lead was Lee Gehlbach of Little Rock, Ark. flying a low-wing Command-Aire...