Word: erastus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Named for Erastus Smith (1787-1838), who, although deaf, commanded the scouts in General Sam Houston's army. "Deaf" Smith swam the flooded Buffalo Bayou, captured a courier with dispatches for Santa Anna and, on the morning of the battle of San Jacinto, burned the only bridge on which the Mexicans could retreat...
Died. Lieut. General Ross Erastus Rowell (ret.), 62, Marine Corps aviator, credited as originator of dive-bombing tactics; of coronary thrombosis; in San Diego, Calif. During the 1927 Nicaraguan uprising, an outpost of U.S. Marines was surrounded by 600 rebels; Rowell loaded up his De Havilland biplanes with 17-lb. bombs, pinpointed them by diving at the target, routed the enemy. He later demonstrated his technique at the 1932 Cleveland Air Races. Looking on: Luftwaffe Colonel General Ernst Udet, who commented: "We ought to try it in Germany." They did. Result: the famed Stukas...
Albany's Mayor Erastus Corning, II, in effect, agreed. On that basis Corning had ruled that Robeson could not sing in Philip Livingston Junior High School. A public school, said the mayor, should not be open to an artist identified with Communism. But the New York State Supreme Court reversed Corning and, in effect, Robeson, by ruling that singing is an artistic performance "and nothing else." Robeson could appear in the high school...
...P.A.C. they picked slender, sharp-faced Henry Epstein, onetime State Solicitor General and a member of P.A.C.'s national executive committee, for a 14-year State Court of Appeals judgeship. To add a bit of luster to the slate, they drafted Albany's 36-year-old Mayor Erastus Corning II, an ex-G.I. and Yaleman, for Lieutenant Governor...
Nebraska's G.O.P. candidate for governor was a World War II veteran with an impressive Scandinavian name: Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson. As a lieutenant colonel of the Army Air Forces, 42-year-old Val Peterson spent 24 months in the CBI Theater, supervised air-freight movements over the Hump into China. But unlike many other veteran candidates, he was no newcomer to state politics, nor did he wave the bloody shirt...