Word: sexton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twilight in St. Louis last week Hugh Sexton, 29-year-old aviation editor of the Chicago Tribune, climbed into a ten-passenger American Airways plane, started back to his job. For fellow passengers he had a Manhattan advertising man and an Ohio sanitary engineer. Pilot Walter Hallgren had made the St. Louis-Chicago run for six years and was approaching his millionth flight mile. After the plane had bored 100 mi. into Illinois, thick, wet snow began to envelop it. The Chicago radio operator heard its pilot report: "Visibility one-eighth mile, ceiling 500 ft., ice forming on wings...
...candidate for high elective office. In 1931 "Tony" Cermak was overwhelmingly nominated for Mayor. At Cermak's death old Boss Pat Nash who succeeded him as Democratic National Committeeman wanted to be Mayor. Young, aggressive State's Attorney Thomas Courtney backed Corporation Counsel William H. Sexton, chief Cermak adviser, for the job. They compromised on Ed Kelly. As soon as the new Mayor was installed in City Hall, the old Sanitary District scandal was raked up and rehashed. One of the chief rakers and re-hashers was a South Side apartment house builder and real estate reformer named...
Leader Nash did not wait long to show his hand. The City Council met to hear Corporation Counsel William H. Sexton's opinion on its power to elect a Mayor. He said it lacked such power. In the Morrison Hotel that afternoon Leader Nash gave Democratic councilmen his opinion: "I recommend for acting mayor Alderman Frank J. Corr of the 17th Ward. Now let's see if the new leadership will operate. Meeting's adjourned...
...vacant since Very Rev. George Paull T. Sargent became rector of Manhattan's smart St. Bartholomew's.* Chaplain Kinsolving will take office as soon as the War Department accepts his resignation. West Point's most striking memory of him will likely be a recent one. The sexton hanged himself in the gallery of the West Point Chapel. Few days later, during a lull in the inquest, the presiding officer said to Chaplain Kinsolving: "I hope you like the new man I sent you to take the late sexton's place." "Yes, I liked him very much...
...home, in Flushing, L. I. Almost certain of a place on the U. S. team last week was Joe McCluskey, Fordham steeplechaser, who learned about distance running when he was a newspaper delivery boy in Manchester, Conn. The U. S. has the world's record shotputter, Leo Sexton, and a huge blond Californian, Herman Brix, who, experts think, is just as good...