Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days prior they had assembled at Pittsburgh, in the streets' outside old St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, whose publicity-wise pastor, Rev. James R. Cox, had collected small sums for his tram's food and gasoline. Accompanied by his mother, Father Cox stepped out on the portico of his church, consulted his lieutenants. Two were priests like himself, another a lawyer. Waiting to join him en route was prizefighting, pants-pressing Mayor Edward McCloskey of Johnstown (1889 flood town). Then Father Cox signalled for his motorcade of 1,000 trucks and cars to get underway, climbed into the lead...
That was not all the Governor did. When the army got to Harrisburg he made them a speech, told them he sympathized with their demonstration, fed them all, provided shelter for the night. Father Cox's red truck rolled up to the outskirts of Washington in a torrential rain at 10:15 p. m. Pulling his black weeds about him, he picked his way into a drug store, ate a sandwich, drank a glass of milk, telephoned Washington's chief of police that they were there. That night some of his men slept in the District National Guard Armory...
...Carolina and the inside of the paper is filled with enormous advertisements paid for by these manufacturers-all in the same day. But this hasn't anything to do with North Carolina having the largest tobacco market in the world. On the second thought, it should. W. G. Cox...
...combined companies will have plants in Chicago, Bridgeport, Los Angeles, will be one of the largest makers of radio sets in the U. S. Also important: Grigsby-Grunow acquires worldwide Columbia marketing outlets. The voting trustees of Columbia Phonograph Co. who made the announcement are: President Henry Cantwell Cox, Artemus L. Gates, president of New York Trust Co., and Fred Warner Shibley, vice president of Bankers Trust Co. Columbia stockholders will get a $10 cash liquidating dividend from their own company and four and four-tenths shares of Grigsby-Grunow stock for each share held. At current prices of about...
...Strange Career" Mr. Hoover is depicted as an unscrupulous stock promoter who as an "insider" made a fortune at the expense of the investing public. He is followed to West Australia's gold fields as the agent of the London engineering firm of Bewick, Moreing & Cox of which he later became a partner. In detail his "taking" of the Kaiping coal mines in China is described, together with the London law suit in which an equity court found against his firm and in favor of Mandarin Chang. Tin enterprises in Nigeria, oil ventures in Siberia and Peru, gold digging...