Word: becks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...originality,: so much as for a brilliant and airy prettiness. The surprising tangle of branches streaked with light in Ross E. Draught's Dead Chestnut gave the tree as much character as a face. William M. Paxton had sent in three portraits, for one of which he got the Beck Gold Medal...
...Honest Residence." The House Elections Committee took up the case of Representative James Montgomery Beck, charged by Democrats with having established his residence in Philadelphia solely in order to be elected to the House and thus be able to defend Senator-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania, whose lawyer Mr. Beck was (TIME, Dec. 19). The Beck abode in Philadelphia, leased only a few months before his election, is an apartment in a low grade quarter of the city where Senator-suspect Vare has absolute political control. Testifying last week, Mr. Beck said: "It's an honest residence...
Atlantic Coast Republicans, including Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, Representative-elect James M. Beck of Philadelphia, Representative John Philip Hill of Baltimore, one-time (1915-17) Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York and President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, attended a dinner at the Union League Club, Manhattan. Mr. Wadsworth and President Butler made orations but the oracle of the evening was Captain Stayton, who outlined his Association's plans for next year...
Lions, elephants, gnus, water buffalo, pythons, a rhinoceros and a golden-haired baboon-Frederick Beck Patterson, 35-year-old President of the National Cash Register Co., reached the U. S. last week tanned and a little thin, and told how he had shot them with camera and gun during five months big game hunting in Central and East Africa. When he ended he had a ton of animal skins and heads and 18,000 ft. of cinema films plus 400 still photographs (he was in the 15th Photographic Air Service Unit during the War). That was too much...
...Vare was "vindicated" of allegedly purchasing his disputed Senate seat when Philadelphia elected the Vare-backed G. O. P. candidate, Harry A. Mackey, for mayor, over J. Hampton Moore, Independent G. 0. P. man. All other Vare candidates won, including onetime (1921-25) U. S. Solicitor General James M. Beck, now U. S. Representative-elect Beck. ... In Reading, the Socialist Party swept the board. Tax reform was the issue. It was the most notable uprising of the kind since Milwaukee went Socialist in 1910. Of some 26,000 votes cast, Socialist J. Henry Stump, running for mayor, and his colleagues...