Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gifts reported for the four-month period were made before his message: In March John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave away 85,000 shares of Socony-Vacuum Oil valued at $1,090,000; in May Charles S. Woolworth, 20,000 shares of F. W. Woolworth valued at $1,200,000; Frederick B. Rentschler, 20,000 shares of United Aircraft valued at $270,000; Samuel Zemurray, 1,500 shares of United Fruit valued at $130,000. And whether these gifts went as tax avoidance to private heirs or as public benefaction to charitable institutions was not to be deduced from...
...socialites in Newport no more than could be counted on the fingers of two well-manicured hands were registered to vote in the municipal election. With the exception of crusty old Frederick H. Prince, who cast one vote, and Mrs. Paul Fitzsimons, mother of William H. Vanderbilt, who talked a great deal, the result was left to Newport's 25,000 citizens who make their living off the "summer people" and the sailors from the Naval station. For 17 years the Mayor of Newport has always been a Democrat. Last week, though, Newporters, in political tune with the rest...
...Died. Frederick Huntington Gillett, 83, onetime (1925-31) U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, onetime (1915-25) Speaker of the House, longtime (32 years) Representative; of leukemia; in Springfield, Mass...
...jury had been out more than 27 hours when Federal District Judge Frederick H. Bryant returned from dinner at 8 p. m., took his place on the bench. Just before 9 o'clock the jurors-eight farmers, a school superintendent, a storekeeper, a baker and a guide-shuffled into...
...Frederick William Lawrence wearied of painting with a brush seven years ago. He had won some water color prizes and done some portraits when he was a Canadian soldier in a British hospital. Afterward he got a job painting automobiles for the Pontiac experimental department, later for Oklahoma City's Pontiac dealer, Chieftain Motors, Inc. At this work he developed a fine handiness with the Duco spray gun. Finally the heavy-browed, muffin-faced War veteran undertook to use his spray gun to paint pictures...