Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home in Gloucester, Mass, early one morning last week, after long illness, died A. Piatt Andrew, onetime (1910-12) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, since 1921 a U. S. Representative. He was the tenth Representative, the 14th member of the 74th Congress to die. When the House met at noon that day, it would have been customary to adjourn at once in tribute to the dead colleague. But Congress was straining for adjournment by week's end, and the conventional amenities were postponed for nearly three hours by routine business. Then Massachusetts' Treadway arose to present a resolution...
...next day they and 45,000 of Joe Byrns's homefolk paid a last tribute to the only Tennessean to be Speaker of the House since James K. Polk in 1839, laid him to rest in a cemetery eight miles from the grave of another famed Tennessee Democrat, Andrew Jackson...
...this time. The myth of his own personality has grown and flowered to such lush proportions that some have doubted his actual existence. But that he still is and has been very much alive was proved last week by his autobiography (ghosted by his good friend, a onetime newshawk, Andrew A. Freeman...
THIS WAY TO THE BIG SHOW: THE LIFE OF DEXTER FELLOWS-Dexter W. Fellows and Andrew A. Freeman-Viking...
...never been involved in church fights, has been pleasantly identified with the Pension Board whose assets were $6,000,000 when he joined it. Since then its rolls 'have been enlarged to include every Presbyterian minister over 65, many of them still active pastors. Such Presbyterian laymen as Andrew William Mellon and Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays have given and helped raise funds for the Board, and last year Secretary Master was able proudly to announce that with assets of $40,000,000 it had not lost a cent since 1928 (TIME, Oct. 21). Also proudly, Dr. Master announced...