Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight weeks after President Truman's request that 2,000,000 long tons of surplus U.S. grains be sent to India's relief, Congress still hemmed, hawed and stalled. Georgia's Dixiecrat Gene ("Goober") Cox and Ohio's Republican Clarence Brown sat on the bill in the House Rules Committee...
...last week, the Cambridge coxswain alerted his crew with the traditional British command: "Come forward . . . Are you ready . . . Paddle!" From the Oxford shell sounded a crisp "Okay, gang, let's go!" For the first time in its 97 years of racing Cambridge, the Oxford crew had a U.S. cox: spectacled, 21-year-old George Alexander Carver (Yale...
...soften the shock of retirement on employees, Chicago's William Wrigley Jr. Co. will retire its oldsters on an installment plan. Beginning this year, said President James C. Cox, Wrigley workers who reach the retirement age of 65, but are willing and able to keep on working, will get a month's leave of absence without pay the first year, two months the second year, and so on until they are eventually retired altogether...
Died. The Rev. James R. Cox, 65, Pittsburgh's Roman Catholic "pastor of the poor," who set up a soup kitchen and a tar-papered "Shantytown" for depression victims, led some 10,000 of them (in 1,000 cars and trucks) in a protest march on Washington in January 1932; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh. On the arrival of "Cox's Army"* in Washington, Father Cox had a 20-minute chat with President Hoover (who gave "intense sympathy"), went on to form his short-lived Jobless Party, was briefly its candidate for President, gave up to support...
Archibald Cox '34, professor of Law, told the conference that the lawyer in government gets a much broader view of the law than does the private practitioner because he has no private client to whom he is responsible...