Word: lucase
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
T. A. T. Caution. Snow and darkness hid the path which a Transcontinental Air Transport with two pilots and six passengers was making east of Albuquerque, N. Mex. last week. The pilots, Vernon Lucas and F. N. Erickson, dropped flares, landed comfortably in six inches of snow and by radio...
Cyclopropane Anesthetic, a new gas prepared by Philadelphia's G. H. W. Lucas and Toronto's Velyien Ewart Henderson acts similarly to nitrous oxide (laughing gas) but has more satisfactory after effects. Recovery is rapid. The patient does not struggle. Respiration remains normal, the blood pressure almost so.
¶ Confirmed Dwight Filley Davis as Governor-General of the Philippines, Charles Evans Hughes Jr. as U. S. Solicitor-General, Robert Hendry Lucas as Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
It was a patently political appointment, but far from scandalous. A product of Louisville, Commissioner Lucas, now 41, was elected city police court prosecutor in 1917, his first public office. Blackhaired, handsome, alert, the young man managed to outshine the higher court officials of the time.
The President was told that the very life-breath of Republicanism in Kentucky depended upon the Lucas appointment as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. President Hoover reluctantly acquiesced. Good man though Kentucky's Lucas might prove to be, he did not, at face value, represent the big-bore, experienced businessman...