Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seaman Second Class...
...mishap of the McNutt homecoming occurred in San Francisco when he and his administrative assistant, Wayne Coy, asked for an Army plane to fly them as far as Denver. Three days later, when it was revealed that their pilot. Colonel Davenport Johnson, had been transferred from Hamilton Field to second in command at the Air Corps Technical School at Chanute Field, 111., the War Department maintained it was a "routine" change but reporters jumped to the fairly natural conclusion: that the Administration intended to snub Mr. McNutt...
Feature event was the Santa Anita Derby, a $60,000 stake which would get top billing at any other U. S. race track. But at Santa Anita, where everything is colossal, it plays second fiddle to the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, grand finale of the 57-day meet. As the field of 15 three-year-olds paraded to the post, Sun Egret was the favorite and William du Font's Dauber had a large following; but hunch players and a few sentimentalists were betting on Stagehand, a shiny bay colt owned by Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio...
...Sande-trained Sceneshifter, older brother of Stagehand and a likely choice for this week's Santa Anita Handicap, came close to victory when he placed second to War Admiral in the Belmont Stakes last year...
...Eton-trained, 26-year-old Robert Grant III, Manhattan stockbroker: the U. S. amateur racquets championship for the second year in a row, trouncing Joseph Richard Leonard of Tuxedo, N. Y. in straight games in the final, 15-6, 15-8, 15-4; in Manhattan. In two years of stiff competition, during which he has won the U.S. and Canadian Singles twice, the Tuxedo Gold Racquet tournament twice and the brand-new open competition for the Clarence Pell Cup, Champion Grant has not lost a match, has lost only four games...