Word: becks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...academic year of 1929-30, appointed by the regent, shows 17 new men out of a staff of 46. The list of proctors and where they may be found follows: (The stars denote the new appointments.) Apley 1 *R. K. Lamb 1G. Apthoep 12 J. H. Perkins, 2nd 2L. Beck 25 *R. H. Field Sp.L. Beck 22 *M. A. Cheek 1G.B. Claverly 23 *C. McK. Norton 1L Claverly 44 Davidson Sommers 3L. Dana 37 *T. L. M. Newton Drayton 8 *Humphrey Slatter Jr. 1L. Dunster 23 Asst. Dean Henry Chauncey Gore A25 G. G. Benedict 4G. Gore...
...Editor Moffat began to reach the retiring age. Passing 60, he found the editorship strenuous. Some months ago he talked the matter over with Crowell President Lee Wilder Maxwell, with Collier's Executive Director Thomas Hambly Beck. He discovered that they, too, had been thinking of a change. Last week Editor Moffat, 63, retired...
Born. To James Montgomery Beck Jr., son of Pennsylvania's Congressman Beck; and Mrs. Clarissa Tennant (Tennyson) Beck, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, daughter of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon; a six-pound son, a five-pound daughter, twins. Mrs. Beck's first husband (divorced) was the Hon. Lionel Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet...
...Florida (which got higher duties on fresh vegetables and fruit) and Louisiana (which got a higher duty on sugar) sidled over to vote with the Republican majority. Twelve Republicans joined the Democratic opposition. Most of them were midWest insurgents. One of them was an eastern regular-Philadelphia's Beck...
...Beck's vote took courage. The industrialists of Pennsylvania, led by Joseph R. Grundy. had demanded the high duties of this bill, and more. To defy them involved a man-sized political risk, even for a constitutionalist like Mr. Beck. The Philadelphia Congressman declared the whole policy of the extra session a "mistake," insisted that he had voted his "personal convictions," left his more orthodox Republican colleagues thoroughly startled by his independence, as he departed to Atlanta to tell the Georgia Bar Association that, like the Parthenon, the constitution was "still beautiful in its ruins...