Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joke about Chicago's crime-tide has long been the prerogative of colyumists, cartoonists, comedians. Last week a high Federal official joined the game. Munching a lettuce sandwich, sipping milk, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock sat in his office and told Washington newshawks about his recent visit to Chicago. Perhaps in all seriousness, but with ludicrous effect, he said: "I saw nothing of the speakeasies that are reported to flourish [there]. Why, I even walked down some of the so-called 'bad streets' several nights. ... I saw no machine-guns on street corners, or anything like...
...accordance with its policy of expansion the Harvard Flying Club announced last night that it has placed an order for a Curtiss Robin, a cabin monoplane powered by a 170 horsepower Curtiss Wright motor, and that the ship will be flown on from St. Louis next week by two club pilots. The plane is to be used primarily for cross-country flying. To supplement this ship the Club will also operate a Gypsy Moth for the purpose of training those members who have not as yet received their private licenses...
...contained 12% alcohol. . . . Winemaking will receive little consideration from the enforcement unit. . . . The job of the Prohibition Bureau ... is to enforce the law against the big, commercial violators. . . . Wine may be made in the home for use in the home." Thus last month spoke Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock. He added that such wine might legally be transported...
Publicist Jones. Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones, great trainer of flyers and one of the best-liked men in U. S. aviation, last week was made a vice president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and put in charge of all the concern's public relations. A sort of promotion for him, it required his removal as president of Curtiss-Wright Flying Service. Other Curtiss-Wright personnel changes last week: Major E. H. Brainard became C. W. Flying Service president; William F. Carey turned his presidency of C.W. Airports Corp. over to Charles W. Loos and returned to his railroading; Bruce Gardner Leighton...
Chairman, J. B. Wright '92; vice-chairman, W. K. Ginman; secretary-treasurer, P. R. Lincoln '23; counselor, Professor C. L. Dawes...