Word: ike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover v. Roosevelt," intoned the clerk of a Chicago police court, whereupon Ike Hoover,* special agent for the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., stepped forward, accused one Metts Roosevelt, Negro, of stealing ice in the yards. Said Metts Roosevelt, after receiving a fine of $10 & costs, "I'm going to vote for Hoover- and I don't mean Ike Hoover, neither...
...confused with Chief Usher Irvin Hood ("Ike") Hoover, longtime (since 1891) White House employe...
Later, however, more seasoned women pilots flew an admirable race in a driving storm for the Aerol Trophy. Rain & darkness blinded them so they could not see the flags on the pylons signalling them down. Mrs. Gladys O'Donnell, in the cockpit of pugnacious "Benny" Howard's little racer Ike, won at 185 m.p.h. Next day Mrs. Mae Haizlip, wife of "Jimmy" Haizlip, in her husband's ship, flashed past the timing cameras at 255 m.p.h., 45 m.p.h. faster than the women's record, just as fast as Doolittle in the Thompson race...
...notice on President L. W. Greve that they would fly in no more events unless the total prize money for closed-course races was upped from $28,000 to what they said the committee had advertised, $100,000. Barked Pilot Benny Howard, whose small, home-made racers Mike and Ike had taken first & second places in a 50-mi. event that day: ''Why, there'll be $50,000 worth of planes cracked up before the end of the week...
...Ike") Hoover, 41 years White House usher (whose "consideration of others is unfailing"). Other nominees: Novelist Benjamin Kittredge; Artist Olin Dows soft-drawling Lawyer Frank Lyon Polk, Wilsonian Undersecretary of State; Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham; Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Actor George Arliss...