Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, of influenza in London; Cinemactress Ruth Chatterton, of two broken fingers caught in an automobile door in Los Angeles; Senator Robert B. Howell of Nebraska, of "rundown condition" in Washington, D. C.; Roy T. Davis, U. S. Minister to Panama, of stomach trouble in Washington, D. C.; Herbert Nathan Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan drygoods); after a heart attack in Manhattan...
Last week's fighting in Jehol meant only hindrance to Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, famed digger of fossils in Mongolia. Dr. Andrews recognized the State of Manchukuo last autumn, arranged with the Regency to continue his Mongolian diggings. As soon as Japan pacifies the region, he will dart in with Dodge cars, camels and naturalists. He has closed the Peking headquarters from which he led five expeditions between 1921 and 1930 at a cost...
While Chicagoans droned in bed before dawn one morning last week, it was morning 18,000 ft. up in the cold, paling sky where Pilot Roy Colton, 27, circled in an open cockpit biplane. In line of duty he was taking notes on the height and thickness of cloud layers, ice forming conditions, the direction and violence of the wind (80 m.p.h. that morning). His chief work was being done inside a little streamlined box strung on rubber cords between the outer struts of his right wing. In it, human hairs squeezed of oil and moisture were taking...
...Course): W. S. Baskervill, Charleston, S.C.; F. S. Bayley, Jr., Seattle, Wash; P. J. Catinella, Belmont, Mass.; H. D. Courtemanche, Hudson, Mass.; J. B. Jackson, New York, N.Y.; W. W. Mein, Jr., San Francisco, Cal; A. I. Mitchell, Jr., Wilmington, Mass.; T. M. Page, Scarsdale, N.Y.; Le Roy Pemberton, Philadelphia, Pa.; C. H. Stockton, Boston, Mass; R. R. Sweeney, Bedford, Mass.; J. H. Tucci, Cambridge, Mass...
...Roy Mikkelsen, of California: the U. S. ski-jumping championship, with jumps of 138 and 141 ft.; at Salisbury, Conn...