Word: hancockers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JOHN HANCOCK: PATRIOT IN PURPLE (422 pp.) - Herbert S. Allan - Macmillan...
...many years John Hancock has needed no other credentials than the flourishing signature (twice the size of anyone else's) with which he signed the Declaration of Independence. Many a schoolboy has heard what Hancock reportedly said then: "There! John Bull can read my name without spectacles, and may now double his reward of ?500 for my head. That is my defiance." It was enough to make John a bona fide hero in all textbooks, engravings on schoolroom walls, and advertisements for a prominent insurance company. But obviously there was more to be said...
...John Hancock: Patriot in Purple is the sort of biography that has lately become fairly common-a valuable study of a neglected historic figure, written, however, with an air of almost deliberate carelessness, in a scratchy and repetitious prose style, and with modern, skeptical yawns breaking in on the high-minded speeches of the patriots...
...Hamlet & Hancock. Among the prize English items: William Caxton's printing of The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1475), first book printed in English; one of the two known copies of the 1603 edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Top American purchases include: the only specimen of Columbus' handwriting in the New World; John Hancock's letter naming Washington commander in chief; the neatly penned Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin...
...settle out of court). Harold Stanley, head of Morgan Stanley, underlined one possible defense. "Everyone knows that for years our industry has been subject to the most minute regulation and scrutiny by the Securities & Exchange Commission,"said he. "Someone, for whatever reasons, has misled the Department." Snorted John M. Hancock, partner in Lehman Bros., co-author of the Baruch-Hancock reconversion report (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944) and ex-U.S. delegate to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission: "Either these charges are based on ignorance of how business is done, or this is another campaign against American business made...