Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressman Robert Bacon of Long Island was almost the only active opponent to the passage of the McDuffie Bill in the House. He declared that an amendment of the Constitution was required to relinquish colonial possession and that the United States had a moral duty to continue her occupation. Moral duties and constitutionalities have little weight with Senator Smoot's sugar lobby, however, and considering the obvious desirability of increasing local and Cuban sugar production, the nobility of Bacon's sentiment was better quashed than quaffed. In an era of economic nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian...
...Daniel Needham '13, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Safety, in discussing the bill which is being sent to the Legislature this week by Governor Joseph B. Ely and provides for an amalgamation of all the municipal police forces throughout the state. This bill is supported by President Lowell, Gasper G. Bacon '08, Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts and Sam B. Warner '12, professor of Penal Legislation and administration...
Left By Elizabeth Bacon Custer (TIME, April 17), widow of General George Armstrong ("Last Stand") Custer: $101,492, to relatives and Vassar College; a white towel certified to be the first Confederate flag of truce and a white linen handkerchief used as a truce signal by Custer at Appomattox, to the U. S. War Department; a pine table used in the Grant-Lee surrender ceremony, a letter presenting the table to Mrs. Custer by General Phil Sheridan, Custer's sword & scabbard and other mementoes, to the Smithsonian Institution...
Jacob Aloff '34; as of the Class of 1933, William B. Bacon, Keith Famuleney, Walter S. Fox, Jr., George Fremd, Jr., Thomas H. Jameson, Ellis Jandron, Charles P. Lewis, Edward E. Mitchell, Valerio R. Montanari, James D. Reiher, Samuel Silverman, Samuel Spencer; as of the Class of 1932, George de F. Bissell, Jr., Spartaco V. Monello, David V. Smith; as of the Class of 1931, Paul A. Fullam, Frederick W. Thon; as of the Class of 1924, Daniel S. Holder; as of the Class of 1918, Hugh M. Hite...
...Dick" Whitney's uncle, Edward F. Whitney, was a Morgan Partner, his elder brother George married the daughter of the late Morgan Partner Robert Bacon, later became a Morgan Partner himself. "Dick" married a daughter of a president of the Union League Club. By the time that "Dick'' Whitney formed his own firm, Richard Whitney & Co., in 1916, he could pass the portal of the House of Morgan without a trace...