Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oscar Wilde (by Leslie & Sewell Stokes; produced by Norman Marshall). The most lurid of modern scandals, the story of Oscar Wilde has been reverberating between the lines of memoirs and biographies for 40 years. To picture the gross yet elegant, affected yet honest, repellent yet fascinating figure who plunged from dazzling fame to indelible disgrace, is to tackle a subject even more difficult than it is dramatic. Leslie & Sewell Stokes have treated the story in the only possible right way: they have told the plain, unvarnished truth...
...army flier since 1911, assistant chief of his corps since 1936, lively General Arnold succeeds the late Major General Oscar Westover, who crashed last fortnight (TIME. Oct. 3). Air corps officers esteem Henry Arnold for administrative spunk, his recent efforts to take the kinks out of procurement, his help in developing the substratosphere plane which won the 1938 Collier Trophy (TIME, Sept. 26). To get to Henry Arnold, Malin Craig passed over eleven senior air corps officers. Shortly before this selection was announced. Chicago Daily Newsman Paul R. Leach reported another result of Oscar Westover's death...
...with the laboratory building. Only other important objection to Gravelly Point has been that air activity there might conflict with traffic at the Army's Boiling Field, just across the river. That was ironed out, too, by a plan for a central control tower submitted by Major General Oscar Westover, Army Air Corps chief, just before he flew off to die in a crash at Burbank, Calif., last month...
...from non-military exhibitions, that is, from flying at fairs, civic celebrations, etc. Sole exception: American Legion conventions. Last week Mr. Johnson proudly watched 200 army planes cavort above the Legion's parade in Los Angeles. Next day Mr. Johnson's fellow Legionnaire, Chief of Air Corps Oscar Westover, having directed the Legion air show, took off from March Field for Lockheed Airport at Burbank, Calif. Arriving there, the piloting general skimmed across the field to test the wind, headed back for a landing. Watchers saw his Northrop attack plane spin, crash in flames, set a frame house...
Mourned Chief of Staff Malin Craig who had recommended the promotion of squatable Oscar Westover to Chief of Air Corps in 1935: "More than any other individual . . . he has been responsible for the phenomenal progress of his branch...