Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death, which often fluttered close to the wings of Lieut. Irvin A. Woodring, last of the Army's "Three Musketeers." overtook him last week at Wright Field. Dayton, Ohio. Week before at the same field it had flung to earth another crack Army pilot, Captain Hugh M. Elmendorf. Both men were performing their routine work of testing experimental planes. Captain Elmendorf crashed with his spinning pursuit ship. Lieut. null fighter snapped to bits in mid-air when something, possibly the propeller, broke...
Sidney S. Alexander of Forrest Hill, John D. Cook of Wilkinsburg, Pearson C. Cummin, Jr. of Devon, Harold B. Lang of AspinWall, Donald C. Logan of Turtle Creek, Harvey W. Miller of Wayne, William F. Read, 3rd, of Villa Nova, Irvin G. Shaffer of Reading, Grant E. Wesner of Reading...
...confused with Chief Usher Irvin Hood ("Ike") Hoover, longtime (since 1891) White House employe...
...education between hours of field work, went to Marvin College at Clinton. Ambitious, he studied law at Emory in Georgia, and later at the University of Virginia. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1901, he was taken into the Paducah law office of Judge W. S. Bishop, prototype of Irvin Cobb's ''Judge Priest." In 1905, after a muleback campaign, he was elected county prosecutor. Four years later he successfully campaigned on horseback for a county judgeship. A horse & buggy carried him around on his winning canvass for the House of Representatives in 1912. Though...
...Liberty, Mrs. Florence Jaffray ("Daisy") Harriman, Washington socialite and politician, wrote a list of "Ten Best-Mannered men in America." She gave first rank to former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (''always the gallant gentleman"), second place to Irvin...