Word: mccook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lieut. E. H. Barksdale, 29, World War "Ace"; at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio in an airplane crash. Once Lieut. Barksdale parachuted to safety when the "flipper" (tail surfaces) of his plane left the ship. Again, this year, he jumped after the wings came off the fuselage in which he was seated. Last week F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War in charge of Aviation (TIME, July 12) saw Pilot Barksdale's plane go into a tail spin at 2,000 ft.; saw him jump, open his 'chute; saw the silken shrouds foul in the struts...
Airplanes from McCook Field, Dayton, often fly over London, Ohio. The aviators, looking down at the spring countryside, watch the housewives of London spread their laundered sheets, smaller than a doll's handkerchiefs, to dry on the grass. The housewives rarely glance at the aviators. Why should they bother? Yet last week a housewife looked at her sheets and then at the sky and telephoned McCook Field. Then the voice of another matron harangued one of the ground pilots; others followed. Each had much the same complaint to make; the planes were, or rather they had-well, just...
...court that will determine the mer-Es of the case is composed of men who rank high in their profession. Three justices will preside, and they are Hon. Elisha H. Brewster, United States District Judge, District of Massachusetts; Hon. Philip, James McCook, L '99 Justice of the Supreme Court of New York; and Hon. Marcus Morton L. '85, Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts...
...Thomas Nickerson Jr. Philip Wigglesworth Chase Leonard Lispenard Robb Byron Ritter Cutcheon Adolph Walter Samborski Malcolm Whelen Greenough Philip Spalding FOR ALBUM COMMITTEE (Five to be elected) Thomas Dawes Blake 2nd Merrill Garcelon John Lyon Caughey Jr. Theodore Pearson Joseph Kinney Collins Otis Radcliffe Rice Donald Bosson Fleming John McCook Roots Joe de Ganahl Loring Whitman
...Orator.--John Huston Finley Jr. of New York City, and John McCook Roots of Hankow, China...