Word: mais
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pilot Carmichael will probably go the Air Mail Fliers' Medal, first awarded to Northwest Airlines' Mai Freeburg in 1932 for a similar feat...
...theory that a sincere national movement should enlist young blood to carry it through the years, and that it would excite U. S. schoolboys to be associated, even remotely, with characters like Gene Tunney (retired), Barry Wood (Harvard) and Mai Stevens (Yale), Com-mander Fred G. Clark of the Crusaders last week paid a visit to Lawrenceville School. Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott, bluff and hearty, was glad to call his boys together to hear Crusader Clark's story ^that the Crusaders were going to start a Junior Division and had picked Lawrenceville to be, among...
Most newsworthy of last week's doings among football coaches was the resignation of Yale's Dr. Marvin Allen ("Mai") Stevens, head coach since 1928. He transferred to Yale from Washburn College (Kans.) in 1922, played halfback on the Yale team in 1923. When a new rule made him ineligible the next year he became an assistant coach. Record of Yale teams under Coach Stevens: won 21, lost n, tied 8. The 1932 record: won 2, lost 2, tied 3. His ostensible reason for retiring: to devote more time to surgery...
...Wolf, who had come from St. Louis to solicit funds for the Poor Orphans Home of Jerusalem. Day after Merchant Bormaster's death, Rabbi Wolf gave this up and began the prayers. Daily, for nearly seven months, Rabbi Wolf would intone: ". . . Deevroh Be'olmoh Rabbo Sh'mai Veyiskadash Yisgadal" (Magnified and sanctified be His Great Name in the world he created . . . ). After that the Bormaster family told Rabbi Wolf they could finish out the eleven months of Kaddish themselves. Fortnight ago, charging he had been promised "reasonable compensation" for his services, Rabbi Wolf brought suit against...
Flying the mail one night nearly two years ago, Pilot Mai B. Freeburg of Northwest Airways spied a flaming trestle on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Remembering that he had just passed a crack passenger train thundering down from Minneapolis, Pilot Freeburg put about, flagged the express with his emergency landing flares before it could plunge into the Chippewa River. Because Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr. was aboard the train, Pilot Freeburg had made national news...