Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court, realizing the importance of the question, invited counsel from the Senate to appear and present its views. In accordance with this request the Senate designated Senator George Wharton Pepper in its behalf. The Government was ably represented by Solicitor General James M. Beck...
...present at the argument before the Supreme Court. Both Mr. Beck and Senator Pepper agreed that though the case at bar related to a postmaster, the real question involved the power of the President to remove the Comptroller General, who stood entrenched behind an Act of Congress which, in effect, was not unlike the Act relied upon by Postmaster Myers...
...practical control. In this case the plan was to issue two classes of stock. Class A, with a total market value of $55,000,000 and having certain preferred rights as to dividends, was sold to the public. A majority of the Class B was kept by President Frederick Beck Patterson (son of the founder), the rest by his close associates. As long as dividends were paid to the public's A, the family's B controlled the company. Last year the dividend on the A was omitted. B lost control and able Colonel Deeds was called...
Chrysalis (by Rose Albred Porter; Martin Beck, producer). When this play was first seen in the vernal surroundings of a stock company last summer it was widely regarded as an incipient Broadway success. In spite of the presence of Osgood Perkins. June Walker and chirrupy Margaret Sullavan in the cast, and direction by the Theatre Guild's Theresa Helburn, that judgment may now be set down as premature...
...though Polish courtesy permitted M. Zaleski to withdraw at his convenience last week and retire to his seat in the Senate. Promptly the Peace Man's Foreign Office was turned over to a sabre-rattling "Pilsudski Colonel" who was once the Dictator's personal adjutant, Col. Josef Beck. In his new office Col. Beck will rattle diplomatically at Berlin's rattlers, German Chancellor Franz von Papen and German Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher. Starting out with a soft, soothing, almost inaudible rattle last week Col. Beck declared, "Our foreign policy will remain unchanged. The change [from Zaleski...