Word: cochrans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Ganna Walska d'Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick, 45, Polish-American opera singer, perfumer, feminist, whose four previous husbands had owned fortunes totaling $125,000,000; to Harry Grindell-Matthews, 57, inventor of the "death ray," which knocked out a cow 200 yards distant at its first British War Office tests; in London. The bride went on her honeymoon alone, while the investor rushed to his Clydach, Wales laboratory (fenced with electrified wire) to perfect an aerial torpedo...
White, Chace, John Gardiner, Erickson, Hallowell, Senior, Cochran, Kernan, and Dillingham; Snow, Rowe, Cary, Rile, Dud Talbot, Haupt, Scull, Holmeyer, and Burnes; Shortlidge, Lawerence, Dearborn, Huenckens, Radway, Goodwin, Leighton, Tarbell, and Derby...
...Bendix, gaudy, onetime Winner Roscoe Turner was eliminated before the start when his ship caught fire on the ground at Los Angeles. For a time the lead was held by Jacqueline Cochran Odlum, wife of investment trust Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum, only woman entered. She reached Cleveland in third place, won $3,000 plus $2,500 offered to the first woman to finish. The $5,000 second prize went to Earl Ortman of Los Angeles, who nearly lost consciousness for lack of oxygen when he mounted to 22,000 ft. over Kansas to avoid a storm. Winner was wealthy Sportsman...
...small cardboard box which Charles Cochran, a Tennessee barber, carried when he entered his New Market yard one evening last week contained his dead baby daughter, born three months premature at a hospital 18 miles away. The doctor had worked on her for an hour and a half; given up. Barber Cochran put her on a shelf in his smoke house for burial next day. Next afternoon when he opened the box the baby began to cry. Rushed back to the hospital, she lived for 24 hours, then died permanently...
Last week a repeal bill, proposed by Democrat Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, reached the floor of the House. In Committee of the Whole, over the protests of women members of both parties, Democrat John J. Cochran of St. Louis succeeded in amending it so as to tighten instead of repeal the antimarriage clause. But final action was taken by the House itself. To the surprise and jubilation of the repeal forces the Cochran amendment was rejected. Straight repeal was voted, 203-to-129, and the bill was sent to the Senate, where its passage was expected. Broad smiles spread...