Word: luckey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luckey Strike. The announcement, which many a Californian took to mean that he was wild to be governor and hoped to use the office as a springboard for the presidency, was just what was needed to get California politics tuned to its standard note of discord. It re-opened a party quarrel which had begun when Jimmy tried to scuttle Truman for Eisenhower. It also emphasized the rift between Jimmy and E. George Luckey, who as a faithful Trumanite had replaced Jimmy as leader of the state's Democrats...
...Luckey, a wealthy, Texas-born cattleman, had backed the Truman campaign in California almost singlehanded, had spent some $10,000 to run it. Since the campaign, he has been Harry Truman's fair-haired boy in California. Eyeing his Elks tooth, big Stetson and cowboy boots, the President had said: "Glad to see you wearing those [pointed] boots, George. They'll be good for kicking some of those fellows...
Then a Texas aircraft supplier named Leroy H. Luckey told of buying usable World War II bomber engines from the War Assets Administration as scrap, and selling 46 of them to a dealer who shipped them to Russia and Poland. With this, the New York Journal-American could hardly contain itself; it reported that "secret agents from the Kremlin were combing WAA depots...
Shank of the Evening. In Kankakee, Ill., Police Chief Nelson put Sergeant Bert Luckey on regular duty so that he positively could not attend the annual policeman's ball. Last year the Sergeant's wooden leg broke under the pressure, spilled ball bearings and dancers all over the floor...