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Elected. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; to be a director of Williamsburg Holding Corp., which is restoring Williamsburg, colonial capital of Virginia (TIME, June...
...Telegram, after a survey, reported that there had been 89 shootings in the city within one month. Aroused by this and other testimony, District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain last week called a meeting of 50 such civic leaders as Owen D. Young, Seward Prosser, Thomas W. Lamont, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Forty gentlemen attended, formed what newsmen likened to an oldtime frontier vigilance committee. A call was issued for complaints from racket victims. These poured in immediately, revealing gang levies on trucking, music, milk, funerals, laundries, freight, cleaning & dyeing...
...Washington went all the officers of the Republican National Committee save Chairman Simeon Davison Fess. After being closeted with President Hoover, they announced their intention of more vigorously disseminating G. O. Propaganda. Publicist West will be retained. The Republican replica of Jouett Shouse-Executive Director Robert H. Lucas of Kentucky-will be retained. Contributions will be solicited at once, for after the congressional campaign only $8,000 remained in the party till...
Zeus may well have been thinking of something else when Pallas Athene, mature and fully armed, was born from his ponderous brow. Certainly when Chairman Simeon Davison Fess of the Republican National Committee thought and said: "The party will remain Dry or it will be split" (TIME, Nov. 17) he was not contemplating the creation of a mature, warlike body of Wet Republicans which almost simultaneously appeared. Perhaps instead Mr. Fess was thinking in terms of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals statement fortnight ago: "Any catering to the Wets, any toleration of a suggestion of modification, would...
...Elizabethan Music," Professor Davison, Sever...