Word: hancock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northern State Parkway and an ardent anti-new dealer as their candidate. Young and forceful, Mr. Moses possessed none of the Old Guard characteristics which Mr. Macy bombarded. The Committee stood so high that they defeated Mr. Macy utterly at the pre-convention meeting and named Clarence Hancock as Temporary Chairman who will discuss national issues...
...banking house of Lehman Brothers, which had floated Jewel stock, took command. The late Harold Lehman, nephew of New York's Governor, asked a Wartime friend to take charge of rehabilitation as vice president & treasurer. Resigning from his post in the Bureau of Supplies & Accounts, Commander John Milton Hancock, U. S. N., went to work...
...tall, rugged, affable North Dakotan who spent no little part of his naval career installing accounting systems in Navy bases, John Hancock turned $2,000,000 deficits into profits, used profits to pay off $4,500,000 of debts, made up a capital deficit and generally provided a shining example of what a conscientious banking house can do for an industrial client. In 1924 he became a very active partner in Lehman Brothers, and has since been Jewel's board chairman and a mighty hunter of mountain goats. Several years before that, he picked another onetime Navy officer, Commander Maurice...
...Eulalia Callender of Galion, Ohio wrote Mrs. Audrey Hancock of Maywood, Ind. last week: "John is alive. . . . We heard from John. He is well. We don't know where he is hiding. I wish I did know. We have so much mail for him. . . . I don't believe he would surrender. He doesn't trust anyone...
...Hancock is the sister of Desperado John Dillinger, for whose arrest the Department of Justice last week posted a $10,000 reward. Only Federal charge against Dillinger: violation of the Dyer Act (interstate transportation of a stolen...