Word: hancock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Save for some months during the War, in training as a machine-gunner at Camp Hancock, Ga., the rest of his life has been devoted to law and politics. In law he made an astute alliance with Ralph T. ("Dyke") O'Neil, past commander of the American Legion and a Democrat. The firm of Hamilton & O'Neil, with feet in both political camps, did well. In 1934 Partner O'Neil got involved in the War Department supply scandals but Partner Hamilton was not entangled. In politics Hamilton started at the bottom as a precinct captain...
...John Hancock Mutual, eighth largest U. S. life company, lost President Walton Lee Crocker last January, elected its gen eral counsel, Guy Wilbur Cox, to succeed him. President Cox is a member of a no table family. Brother Channing Harris Cox was a Republican Governor of Massachusetts from 1921 to 1924, now heads Bos ton's famed Old Colony Trust Co. Brother Louis Sherburne Cox sits on the Massachusetts Superior Bench. Brother Walter Randall Cox lives in Goshen, N. Y., is the most famed trainer of trotting horses in the U. S. In one Hambletonian, Goshen trotting classic, four...
John Upley, Latvian blacksmith, tops the revolutionary pictures with one named Revolution in Bed, showing red, undressed small boys roughhousing in bed. A meticulous patriot, he also reproduces a plaque on a Massachusetts rock commemorating the visit in 1775 of John Hancock and Samuel Adams...
Signed by Hancock...
...Johannes Hancock, Thesaurius" is scrawled at the bottom in the inimitable and well-known signature of the "Constitutional Father". The "Socii" of that time who also signed were Nathaniel Appleton 1749, John Winthrop 1732, Andrew Eliot 1737, Samuel Cooper 1748, and Andrew Eliot...