Word: maes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dangerous convict unexpectedly out on parole. While attending to these difficulties, he rescues a Long Island heiress (Louise Henry) from kidnappers, loses his heart to an entertainer (Dorothy Page) and a small dog named Hamburger. The smart talk, unfortunately, is the sort that goes sour in any mouth but Mae West's. Says Miss Page to the convict, who is patting her leg: "That's the wooden one-be careful of the splinters...
...Roosevelt spent a large part of it preparing a radio speech to the Young Democrats in Milwaukee (see p. 10); saw a delegation of Congressmen about some bills that were failing; signed a bill appropriating $25,000 for the purchase of the late Wiley Post's plane, Winnie Mae, for the Smithsonian Institution; named Robert E. Freer of Ohio to the Federal Trade Commission; signed the AAAmendments; appointed Laurence J. Martin of Virginia Acting Administrator of NRA's skeleton; approved an order to the State Department to crack down on Russia for permitting the Third Internationale to conduct...
Month ago Wiley Post abandoned his famed Winnie Mae for a faster, low-wing Lockheed. It was a hybrid ship, with the wings of a cracked-up Sirius, the fuselage of a damaged Orion. He planned to fly it on a leisurely pleasure trip to Siberia, had it fitted with pontoons at Seattle. Funnynan Rogers joined him. at the last minute. Their plans were vague. It was to be a vacation trip by easy stages, possibly around the world, with Rogers paying the expenses and lots of stops for hunting and fishing...
...fields, showed an early mechanical bent. One cay a red-hot steel splinter flew into his left eye, blinded it. Given $1,800 disability compensation, he promptly bought an old "Canuck," was soon barnstorming the Southwest. In Sweetwater, Tex. he met & married a pretty 17-year-old girl named Mae Laine who regarded him and his occupation with a wide-eyed enthusiasm not shared by her rancher father...
Year later Wiley Post took a job as aerial chauffeur for Oilman Florence C. Hall who had bought a Lockheed Vega monoplane, called it Winnie Mae after his daughter. When one-eyed Pilot Post had piled up 700 hours air time, the Department of Commerce gave him a physical waiver and a license. In 1930 Oilman Hall bought a new Lockheed Vega also called Winnie Mae. In that ship Post quickly got national attention by winning the 1930 Bendix Trophy Race, scooting from Los Angeles to Chicago non-stop in 9 hr. 9 min. With laconic Australian Harold Gatty...