Word: brocks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...precisely noon on Dec. 1, Vice President Curtis mounted the rostrum in the Senate chamber at Washington. Beneath him Senators were milling about, handshaking, ready after five months of vacation to take up the Nation's business again. All the Senators-elect (Hastings, Bulkley, McGill, Brock, Carey, Williamson) except James John Davis and Dwight Whitney Morrow were being introduced right & left by friends. Mr. Davis' right to his seat had been challenged by Senator Nye's committee for investigating excessive campaign expenditures. He refused to join the Senate until cleared. Mr. Morrow's credentials were late...
...Acheson '33, Pittsburgh, Pa.; J. B. Ames '32, Wayland, Mass.; M. L. Anshen '33, Boston; C. M. Arensberg '31, Pittsburgh, Pa.; W. O. Aydelotte '31, Swarthmore, Pa.; M. S. Beeler '31, Seattle, Wash.; F. E. Bissell, Jr. '31. Dubuque, Iowa; J. A. Booth '33, E. Boston J. L. Brock '32, Buffalo. N. Y.; F. O. Canfield '32, New York City; B. G. Carleton '31, New York City; Henry Chalfant, Jr. '31, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Leslie Cheek, Jr. '31, Nashville Tenn.; J. A. Cooper '33, Birmingham, Ala.; D. C. Dennett, Jr. '31, Winchester; R. B. Eckles '32, York, Nebr.; R. B. Eichholz...
...William S. Brock, of Detroit's famed world flying team, Brock & (Edward Frederick) Schlee...
Suicides. Perhaps not an aftermath of the C. Clothier Jones failure was a startling Philadelphia sequence. Last week George K. Reilly of Reilly, Brock & Co. committed suicide. Soon afterward, Sidney F. Tyler Brock, the other partner, shot himself. The next day Robert L. Zoll, 53, junior partner of Charles H. Bean & Co., killed himself in the firm's basement. A few days later another suicide was Edwin I. Simpson, 59, president of E. I. Simpson...
Tennessee. Democratic Senator William Emerson Brock, Chattanooga candy man, appointed to succeed the late Lawrence Davis Tyson, was nominated for the short Senate term (to 1931) over Dr. John R. Neal, Knoxville attorney in the famed Scopes ("monkey") trial at Dayton. He will oppose F. Todd Meacham, Republican senatorial nominee, in November. For the Democratic nomination for the full Senate term Congressman Cordell Hull of Carthage and Andrew L. Todd were prime candidates. Congressman Hull, 58, Spanish War Veteran, entered the House in 1907, became a potent member of its Ways & Means Committee, wrote the first income...