Word: raye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ray Atherton, Chargé d'Affaires of the U. S. Embassy in London, helped signalize the beginning of the Dawesian regime by saying he would name his newborn daughter Helen Maria, after the most widely publicized expletive...
...heralded oil conservation meeting held last week at famed Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, on the call of President Hoover (TIME, June 10). Three hundred delegates attended. From eleven oil-producing States came Governors or their representatives. The U. S. was there in the persons of Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur and Mark Lawrence Requa, the meeting's chairman and the President's special representative. Nine billion dollars of the eleven-billion-dollar U.S. oil industry were actively represented. For three days the delegates wrestled with oil, deplored its waste, bewailed overproduction, hoped for improvement, disbanded without definite accomplishment...
...Died. Ray Keech, 28, of Philadelphia, onetime truck driver, onetime (April, 1928) holder of the world's auto speed record (207.55 m. p. h.), winner of the Indianapolis race on Memorial Day (TIME, June 10); at Altoona, Pa., Speedway, in a four-car smash-up while traveling at a speed...
Twelve of the 33 finished. Ray Keech of Philadelphia won. His Simplex Piston Ring Special averaged 97.583 m. p. h. This was slow driving for Winner Keech, who in 1928 held the world's speed record by moving 207.55 m. p. h. at Daytona Beach, Fla. But it was not easy, for he took the notoriously low-banked, treacherous Indianapolis turns without lowering his throttle. His skilled chauffering won him about...
Editor George Horace Lorimer's Saturday Evening Post has a weekly circulation of three million. Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan (owned by Publisher William Randolph Hearst) has a monthly circulation of 1,620,000. Lately these two able men have been engaged in a little game of magazine golf; and now the score is all even at the turn-Editor Long with Calvin Coolidge's autobiography appearing in Cosmopolitan; Editor Lorimer with a contract for the life story of Alfred Emanuel Smith tucked snugly away in his safe. Last week something occurred to bring forth the question...