Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This blast from quiet Senator Fred Her bert Brown of New Hampshire played its part in persuading Congress to pass the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 ("death sentence"). Howard Hopson, lying low ever since he was spanked by the Black investigation for lobbying against the Act, has left to his more conventional brethren in utilities the job of fighting the death sentence. Last week that fight was apparently over. Having battled unavailingly up to the Supreme Court, all the major utilities submitted plans for slicing themselves up in accord with the death sentence. For the occasion it pleased...
...House. Bert Snell of Potsdam, N. Y. retired last summer as Minority Leader of the House. Almost certain to succeed him is Joseph William Martin Jr. of North Attleboro, Mass. Three things will make his job easier than that of his predecessor...
Fall rowing reached a new peak of popularity this year with over 270 oarsmen participating at Newell Boat House alone. Bert Haines has seven out of eight men in his championship 150-Ib. boat which went to England this summer. Spike Chace will be sorely missed in the varsity rowing this year, but Tom Bolles has four veterans-back from his last year's boat which was undefeated. Harvey Love has as good a turnout for fall rowing as he had last year and that's saying something...
...Bert Alfred Canvit, 22, of Hinbrook, New York, the driver, told police he "didn't sec the man until the car bumped against something." Douglas Farmer, 22 of Hinsdale, Illinois, and Erwood G. Edger of Toledo, Ohio, with Canvit at the time, assisted him in taking Duval to a hospital where he died soon after admission. After questioning they continued on their...
...Bert Haines is optimistic about the prospects of the Varsity and Freshman 150-lb crews. Along with the 1938 lightweight Henley eight which returns this year almost intact there is a powerful Freshman aggregation, promising to give the Varsity a good battle...