Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago President Hoover asked Will Rogers to crack a joke which would stop hoarding...
...Pilot Young was a prisoner of war until he escaped to Italy in a box car. Back again in Iowa he organized the first company to sell Wartime "Jenny" planes, disposed of 50 at $5,000 each. Also he ran a flying school, went barnstorming, had his share of crack-ups from occasional foolhardiness. After directing the aviation program at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition (1926) he was appointed Chief of Air Regulation under William Patterson MacCracken Jr., the first Assistant Secretary of the Commerce Department's newly formed Aeronautics Branch. In that capacity he issued to Mr. MacCracken Pilot...
...became the leader of the U. S. Marine Band. The inadequate pay of its members later drove him to form his own band. A versatile musician, he composed over 300 pieces, 100 of them marches. His "The Stars and Stripes Forever" netted $300,000 in royalties. A crack shot and a finished equestrian, he also wrote The Transit of Venus and The Dwellers in the Western World...
...interesting communication-whether we are separate limbs of the same family tree. At least a score of Detroiters have commented on that letter of mine. . . . Now comes Mrs. Willard Sporleder of Calumet City, Ill. in your issue of the 13th with what smacks of being a nasty crack in ''. . . to there are programs on the air catering to physical and mental 7-year-olds." For myself - I am a publicist, aged 38- should check at least 12. For Stephen, aged 7 - he has already denied Santa Claus, read Alice in Wonderland and Huckleberry Finn, and plays a fairly...
...title but I hope they don't press me too hard in doing it. ... I've got a long ways to go yet . . . Olympics, and four years of running at college. ... I don't want to burn the motors out. . . ." Despite these assurances, the crack milers who had beaten him so handily a year ago had no desire to try again last week. There were nine other entries but only two of them-runners whose prestige could suffer nothing by defeat-appeared for the start. It was not a race, hardly even an exhibition, though the ease...