Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CLASS SECRETARY (Permanent Class Office) James de NormandieCharles McKim Norton Richard Fullington Stevens Richard Arnold Stout FOR CLASS DAY COMMITTEE (Seven to be elected) James Richard Carter Thomas Gaunt Moore Lawrence Milton Shapiro Joseph Stanley Cunningham Edgar Ward La Due Thomas Francis Tucker, Jr. William Temple Emmett John Andrew Prior John Tudor Edward Fuller Fitzhugh, Jr. James Luther Reid George Akin Tupper Stuard Gordon Hardy Kenneth Douglas Robinson, Jr. Howard Whitmore, Jr. Hulburd Johnston Edward William Sexton Alfred Skinner Woodworth FOR CLASS COMMITTEE (Two to be elected--Permanent Class Office) Winslow Carlton James Lawrence, Jr. John Parkinson William Sterling Youngman...
Thomas Francis Tucker, Jr., of Newtonville...
Died. Capt. Charles B. D. Collyer, 32, and Harry Tucker, 34, famed transContinental flyers, flying the Lockheed-Vega plane, Yankee Doodle, following a crash in the Bradshaw Mountains, Arizona, in an attempt to make another West-East flight. Recently they made a record for an East-West non-stop flight-24 hours 51 minutes. With John Henry Mears, theatrical producer, Capt. Collyer established, last July, the round-the-world record (airplane & steamship) in 23 days. Last August, Tucker with Arthur Goebel piloting the same Yankee Doodle, flew from Los Angeles to Curtis Field, L. I., in 18 hours 58 minutes...
Said Owner Tucker: "Boys, there is the greatest pilot you ever saw!" Whereupon he returned to the Yankee Doodle to salvage yet a third conqueror of the airs above the continent It was none other than the ship's mascot?a "hot dog" skillfully converted by the deft use of toothpicks for legs and tail and a ribbon about the neck into an esthetic complement...
When they left Long Island, the fliers took with them 525 gallons of gas. Half an hour longer in the air and they would have had none left. Weather conditions were consistently bad. Flying over the Pennsylvanian Appalachians they encountered what Tucker calls the worst fog he has ever seen. For 1,000 miles they fought a head wind, which retarded their average speed some 20 miles an hour...