Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With outraged vehemence, Secretary of War Harry Woodring retorted that Major Generall Moseley "was disappointed in his ambition to become Chief of Staff. . . . As to the reasons why General [Malin] Craig was preferred for the important post, I do not think anyone needs to look farther than to read General Moseley's flagrantly disloyal statement...
...marched the Rev. James W. Hailwood and Tunis Johnson, both of Grand Rapids, to decide the outcome of their race for Democratic nomination to the House. Each had received 4-533 votes. The Secretary of State said they must draw lots. Rev. Mr. Hailwood delayed the proceedings while he read a statement to the effect that he disapproved of "gambling," therefore would not draw a lot himself, would let a proxy do it for him. His proxy then stepped up, drew out of the hat box for Parson Hailwood the slip marked "Elected...
Last spring when U. S. golf fans read about two Australians-a plumber and a bookmaker-challenging one another to a ?20 golf match along the roads from Sydney to Melbourne (600 miles), 4,000,000 eyebrows were raised at such antipodean antics. Two months ago, however, a Chicago stockbroker named James Smith Ferebee played 144 holes of golf in one day to win the other half of a Virginia plantation he owned with his partner Fred Tuerk, a fellow-broker. U.S. golf addicts had to admit that there were strange golfers...
...Facts' main theme is the folly of "slow-low" flying: "When the time comes . . . to nose down to secure proper control of an aircraft at low altitude, there are only two kinds of pilots: 1) the quick, 2) the dead." Says Publisher Collins: "No sane man can read Air Facts and then stunt at 500 feet...
Waxing Roth, Sage sagaciously says, between bites of a Hershey Barr, keep your eye on the Cornell band, watch Harvard's forward passes, and read the scoreboard: 27-14. Dartmouth 21 - Princeton 14; Penn 14 - Yale...