Word: coe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sidney Coe Howard, 48, topflight U. S. playwright (The Silver Cord, Alien Corn, Yellow Jack), cinemadapter (Bull Dog Drummond, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), son-in-law of Conductor Walter Damrosch; when a tractor he was cranking lurched forward, pinned and crushed him against a garage wall; on his 700-acre farm near Tyringham, Mass. Born in Oakland, Calif, (where three brothers still live), Sidney Howard used to say that he "grew up in a mess of books . . . fumbled around for some kind of artistic expression." His fumbling took him to the University of California (where he wrote plays), to George Pierce...
...Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, 48, author-turned-lawyer, who styles himself in Who's Who as an "outstanding penologist and criminologist," announced in Paris he will run for the Senate next year as an anti-New Dealer against Florida's Senator Charles Oscar Andrews...
Most significant testimony was that of young Conway Peyton Coe, Commissioner of Patents. Now 41, Patent Lawyer Coe was the youngest man ever to be commissioner when Franklin Roosevelt appointed him five years ago (he says modestly that there were few patent lawyers who were also Democrats). Well-groomed, "black-haired Conway Coe got his first job in the Patent Office when he left Randolph-Macon College in 1918. Studying law on the side, he naturally made patents a specialty, soon became one of the nation's crack patent lawyers, building a tidy practice in Washington...
...though holding the patent system largely responsible for the great U. S. fertility of inventions, Commissioner Coe had suggestions for improving the laws. Most important: 1) creation of a single court of patent appeals; 2) reduction from 44 to 20 years of the maximum period "between the filing of an application and the expiration of the resultant patent...
...Warren Club: R. Brooke Alloway, Columbus, Ohio; Francis K. Buckley, Portland, Maine; Charles A. Hastings, Garner, Iowa; William S. Hyde New Castle, Pennsylvania, James H. Keet, Jr., Springfield, Missouri; and Mark E. True, Council Bluffs, Iowa, For the Holmes Club: Horace B. Bent, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Ward B. Coe, Riderwood, Maryland; William H. Morris, Rochester, New York; Horace G. Nebeker, Ogden, Utah; Thomas J. Miller, Verona, new Jersey, and James A. Moore, California, Maryland...