Word: hancockers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Southern California is. U.S.C. announced last week that it had just bought twelve battle-weary warplanes, including a Flying Fortress and a Mitchell 6-25 from the RFC (total cost: $1,900 for the planes, $2,000 to ship them). U.S.C. also rented cheap the $2 million Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics at Santa Maria, Calif. (175 miles from the U.S.C. campus in Los Angeles), complete with instructors, 50 training planes, 15 hangars, and a 200-acre airport...
U.S.C. got its interest in aeronautics, and most of the money to go into it, from its chief trustee, millionaire oilman G. Allan Hancock, 70. Hancock has 2,000 hours' flying time himself, backed Kings-ford-Smith's transpacific flight (1928), founded Hancock College, which U.S.C. will take over...
...seemed invincible in the gratitude of the nation he had just helped so greatly to save, kept his own seat in Commons. But he saw ten thousand of the 38,000 electors in his constituency (Woodford, Essex) plump for a candidate of the lunatic fringe Alexander (farmer) Hancock. A more definite gesture of personal repudiation was scarcely possible...
...west." Sighed Labor leader Herbert Morrison: "The election is in danger of degenerating into a comic opera." Agricultural Note. There was the traditional crop of crank candidates. Wackiest of all seemed to be Churchill's eleventh-hour opponent in Woodford, Essex, doughty Alexander Hancock, 47, a farmer...
...Farmer Hancock decided to run only when Corporal Arthur Yates, who flew back from Burma, arrived too late to stand against the Prime Minister. Said Farmer Hancock, who until last week did not know a soul in Woodford: "I'm not interested in parties: I'm no sheep." Of Churchill he said: "I'm as good a man as he is"; of the Hancock platform (strip life of luxuries and work only an hour a day) : "I'm standing for the common people against organized oppression." Church ill was delighted...