Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high point of bonus opposition came in a speech by Pennsylvania's slight, drawn-faced Republican Senator David Aiken Reed, A. E. F. Major of Artillery, family friend of Andrew Mellon and fellow-Pittsburgher. With shoulders humped, intense voice rasping, Senator Reed hammered away. But as he expected, his words changed not a single ballot. By the impressive vote of 72-10-12 the Senate passed H. R. 17054. Not one Democrat voted against it. The twelve anti-Bonus Republicans were: Borah, Fess, Goff, Hastings, Hebert, Metcalf, Morrow, Moses, Phipps, Reed, Smoot, Walcott...
Died. Ralph Starrett, 62, brother of Paul and Col. William Aiken Starrett
Died. James Hay Reed Jr., 46, President of American Die & Forge Co. and of the Axwell Equipment Co. of Pittsburgh, brother of Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, son of the late Barrister Reed who was a leading force in welding Carnegie and Morgan steel interests and a partner of the late famed Philander Chase Knox; of pneumonia, at the Presbyterian Hospital, in Manhattan...
...first year men signed up to take polo as their fall sport. Six of these men have had previous experience: Lowell Dillingham '34, in Hawall: J. L. Johnson '34, at Santa Barbara; A. B. Marvin '34, at Rockaway; F. B. Richardson '34, at Dedham; S. S. Sands '34, at Aiken; and P. A. Shaw '34. No regular schedule will be attempted in the fall, with most of the time being devoted to a few practices weekly on the field behind the Business School, work for beginners on the wooden horse, and other elementary instruction...
...other fathers and an occasional mother played against the Meadow-Larks. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. grew up and went to War. For a while there were no Meadow Larks. Then the second Hitchcock boy, Francis ("Frankie"), was big enough to start.* When he was going to school in Aiken, S. C. his mother sent him mallets and balls enough for two teams. They played on bicycles on a red clay field. Later Frankie had a hard fall that ended his riding for the time, but the boys who had played with him, still trained by Mrs. Hitchcock, developed into...