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Stating that she "would not be justified in accepting such an appropriation from the taxpayers' money," Mrs. Olivia Murray Cutting, rich mother of the late U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting, refused the customary $10,000 voted by the Senate to deceased Senators' next of kin. Senator Cutting left an estate of nearly...
...subpoenas on such men as Butch Gonzales, Phil Logan, and Man Mountain Dean are as nothing compared to the complexities which arise when C. Richard Courtney of Central Park, West, is attacked. Hugh Herbert adds another figure to his imposing list of characterizations in the person of one Homer Bronson, shyster lawyer with considerable experience in breaches of promise. The courtroom scene is hardly calculated to bring into one's mind a similar scene from the Merchant of Venice, still it has elements which place it among the great courtroom scenes of all time...
Left. By the late U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico: an estate of nearly $4,000,000. including bequests of $50,000 to U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette, $25,000 to Governor Philip La Follette of Wisconsin...
...minor crashes have dribbled into the U. S. Press, attracted little attention. Last month TWA's Sky Chief, en route from Los Angeles to Kansas City, cracked up in a Missouri fog, killed both its pilots, three of its eleven passengers including U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting (TIME, May 13). Unable to land at Kansas City because of fog, the plane had proceeded toward a Department of Commerce emergency landing field at Kirksville, Mo., 128 mi. away. About 16 mi. from Kirksville, with only 27 minutes of fuel left, the pilot came down through the fog, flew low over...
...Administration lines. With him went ex-Representative Charles F. West, now Presidential contact-man, and in the cloak rooms of the Senate they and Whip Harrison proceeded to buttonhole doubtful members. Only one clear victory did they gain: New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, successor to the late Bronson Cutting, whose vote bonuseers had counted on, listened obediently to Boss Farley's words...