Word: cochrans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stationery reserved for authors. His pleasant and gentlemanly use of the epithet "Yanks" further bears out my theory. The distinguished habitues of the Club doubtless call him "Dilly dow" for short. I can see him now in gorgeous yellow stockings with silver buckles on his shiny shoon. JOSEPH WILSON COCHRAN Pastor The American Church of Paris Paris, France Cramp v. Cunningham...
Sued for Divorce. Gifford A. Cochran, carpet manufacturer, famed sportsman; by Mrs. Mabel H. Taylor Cochran. He is owner of a "million-dollar stable." His Coventry last year won the Preakness Stakes, his Flying Ebony the Kentucky Derby...
Died. Robert Cochran ("Handsome Bob") Hilliard, 70, onetime (1886-1918) "matinee idol"; of heart disease and diabetes; in Manhattan. Tall, well-built, handsome, with regular features and a luxuriant mustache, he was always immaculately dressed, thrilled many a heart. He played with Lillie Langtry in 1887; toured for several years in A Fool There Was, his greatest success...
Last summer Thomas Cochran, J. P. Morgan & Co. partner, about to sail for Europe, spoke unwarily to a newspaper reporter, predicted that by the summer of 1928 General Motors common stock would be worth $300 a share (TIME, Aug. 16). Then General Motors declared a 50% stock dividend. If the revaluated G. M. C. stock reached $200, Mr. Cochran's prediction would be intrinsically accurate. Last week that contingency happened-G. M. C. stock sold on the New York Stock Exchange at $200.50 a share...
Died. Major William E. Cochran, 74, onetime Chief Inspector of the Post Office Department; at Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1894, when Coxey's Army marched from the West to Washington, D. C., 352 men seized a passenger train in Kansas, ran wild with it. Major Cochran and his guards captured the lot, marched them to jail. The pursuit, arrest and conviction of Gerald Chapman and "Dutch" Anderson, famed mail robbers, was directed...