Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There has been a conspiracy between Chicago and New York to put me out of business by providing thrillers more bizarre and stories less credible than my play On The Spot." When a young London shoemaker, one Arthur Cox, was hailed into Old Bailey for shooting at two bobbies (whom he missed), the Magistrate showed himself Legs-conscious. After sentencing Shoemaker Cox to ten years' penal servitude for "shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm," Mr. Justice Wright said: "It would be an unfortunate thing for this country if the use of firearms became common. I feel...
Died. Heywood Cox Broun, 80, one-time printer (Broun, Green & Adams), onetime associate of Thomas McMullin & Co. (bottlers of Guiness stout and White Label bass ale), for the past ten years a Manhattan stockbroker (Reynolds, Fish & Co.), British-born father of Heywood Campbell Broun, colyumist for the New York Telegram and Socialist candidate for Congress; after a paralytic stroke, at St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan. After some reflection Colyumist Broun wrote a colyum about his father. Excerpts...
...carry Cleveland for Smith in 1928, was supported this year by Newton Diehl Baker, Scripps-Howard newspapers, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. The McCulloch-Bulkley campaign will be a clear-cut Wet-&-Dry contest. To George White, who as chairman of the Democratic National Committee managed the 1920 Cox campaign for President, went the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Nominee White is as Dry as Nominee Bulkley...
...stage of San Francisco's huge Civic Exposition Auditorium, whence announcement went in 1920 that James Middleton Cox was the Democracy's choice for President, electricians last week put finishing touches to a hook-up of microphones. In an auditorium at Cologne, Germany, was similar activity. Three thousand German-American members of Saengerbunds (singing societies) in 34 U. S. cities, summoned by President William Esser of the Greater Pacific Saengerbund, were about to descend upon Civic Auditorium to celebrate in six concerts and competitions the silver jubilee of the Pacific organization. Meantime 5,000 members of the Rhenish...
...into the Cabinet, gave him his political start. But President Hoover has been as preoccupied as was his predecessor whenever the Harding Memorial was mentioned. The apparent reluctance of official Washington to honor Harding has stirred resentful mutterings in Ohio. Declared the Dayton Daily News (published by James Middleton Cox, Democratic presidential nominee defeated by Harding in 1920) in a recent editorial...