Word: hancock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican President. The impeachment resolution was "laid on the table" (i. e. defeated) by the overwhelming vote of 361-to-8. Seven Democrats voted for it: New York's Black and Griffin, Texas' Blanton and Patman (bonuseer who tried to impeach Mr. Mellon), North Carolina's Hancock, Ohio's Sweeney, Missouri's Romjue. Rarely before had a U. S. President received such a thumping big non-partisan vote of confidence from the House. Impeacher McFadden, denounced and condemned by all Republicans for his "contemptible gesture" against his President, was re-elected last month...
...graduation from Knox College in April, 1917, when he was too young for a commission, he enlisted as a private. He rose to a sergeantcy, first class, and became senior instructor at the Ordinance Field Service School at Camp Hancock, Georgia. He was transfered to the Field Artillery and after the Armistice was honorably discharged with the rank of second lieutenant. Simpson's ability as a lawyer was well shown by his being able to gain the highest honors in the Law School immediately after spending two years in military training, and among the difficulties of war. His legal experience...
...famous foreign visitor has been present at the chapter's meetings, as a guest of honor, or to be received into honorary membership, or himself to act as orator or poet., As early as 1788 the records tell of "a very respectable audience consisting of his Excellency John Hancock Esq., Governour of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Monsieur Senneville Commander of his Most Christian Majesty's Squadron at Boston and other officers of the fleet." In 1824 the Harvard Chapter was host to Lafayette. The orator of that year, Edward Everett, closed with "an address to La Fayette exceeding anything...
Born. To Ernest Hemingway, 33, author (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms), and Mrs. Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway, his second wife; a son; in Kansas City, Mo. Name: Gregory Hancock. Announcing that they were "stork-conscious," Author & Mrs. Hemingway returned from residence in Europe so that Gregory Hancock might be born in Kansas City, where Patrick, their first son (Author Hemingway's second), was born three years...
Snorkey & Hancock...