Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springfield, Illinois' Electoral College (president, Circuit Judge John O'Connor of Chicago) heard a discussion of the merits of electoral v. popular votes for President without recommendation. Illinois ballots gave electors the choice of marking X's for Roosevelt, Landon, Lemke, Thomas, Colvin, Aiken. For Roosevelt & Garner, 29 votes...
...Promoted from the vice presidency to presidency of New York Life Insurance Co. (assets: $2,243,587,000) was Alfred Lawrence Aiken, 66, succeeding popular Thomas Aylette Buckner, 71. A graduate of Yale (1891), Mr. Aiken worked for New York Life for five years before taking a bank job in Boston in 1899. During the War, he was governor of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, in 1917 resumed his connection with New York Life as a director. In 1924 he left Boston and banking to become a New York Life executive...
Hats went off, heads were bowed as Brother Baucom boomed a prayer. Master of Hounds John Aiken Rowan raised a Texas steer horn to his lips, blew long & loud. At this signal the hounds were loosed and, amid a great uproar of babbling dogs, roaring engines and shouting men, women & children, the whole assembly moved off into the brush. Thus began :he 1936 field trials of the South Texas Wolf Hunters Association, biggest "wolf hunt" in U. S. history...
Socialist Labor's John Aiken got some 7,000 votes, to 33,000 polled by Verne L. Reynolds...
...Miller in confidence how they were going to vote on Election Day. The story was kept under cover till 15 hours before the opening of the polls, then "broken" in the Eagle and simultaneously sent to the 1,350 members of the Associated Press. Score: Landon, 32; Roosevelt, 12; Aiken, 1; not voting for President, 3. Featured voter: Miss Phoebe Jordan who announced that she was switching from the GOP to plump for Roosevelt...