Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preferential ballot is conceived so that if a voter's first choice candidate fails to win, his vote is counted for his second or third choice candidate until the offices up for contest are filled. One of the last candidates to be eliminated in The Bronx was Headmaster Frank S. Hackett of the Riverdale Country School. Exulted defeated Schoolmaster Hackett: "Proportional representation is the greatest advance in democratic processes in years. The system is here to stay...
...program was the shattering accident that obliterated two planes, killed two racing pilots in the first day's events. Zipping around a pylon in specially designed speedsters at nearly 200 m. p. h. Thompson Trophy-Winner Rudy Kling, Lemont, Ill. garage proprietor, and Detroit Barnstormer Frank Haines sideslipped and somersaulted from about 200 ft, struck the ground with an impact that sickened the 7,000 spectators. Both were apparently caught in the same down-draught, both crashed within a few seconds and 200 yards of each other. As her young husband was sawed from the wreckage, young Widow Kling...
...when he descended 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan. This was the deepest dive ever made in a diving suit.* An unofficial record of 361 feet was established in 1916 in Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay. Previous official record was 306 ft., set in 1915 by Frank Crilley of the U. S. Navy who reached the submarine F-4 at the bottom of Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...
...this the old soldier recounted, in pompous language but frank detail, in memoirs which he wrote for his kinsmen only. He was aware that he had led a remarkable life, believed that he had lived in a remarkable age. After his right hand was crippled at Ball's Bluff, he learned to write with his left. But his left arm was paralyzed at Antietam, so when he sat down to tell the story of his life he shifted back to the crippled right...
...Henry F. Haviland, Jr., East Orange, N. J.; Albert C. Howell, Sandy Hook, N. J.; Charles D. B. Howell, Boston, Mass.; Ben B. Johnson, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Liewellyn C. Jones, Jr., Oak Park, Ill.; Roland Kahn, New York, N. Y.; Herman A. J. Kiewiet de Jonge, Prangius, Switzerland; Frank W. Kroll, Elizabeth, N. J.; Paul B. Kurtz, Philadelphia, Pa.; Melvin Levine, Revere, Mass...