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...Metropolitan Life (world's largest) revealed that for two years his organization had been foreclosing farm mortgages only "where the farmer is unwilling to carry on or try to do his part toward working out his problem." Other big life insurance companies which suspended foreclosures in Iowa: John Hancock, Aetna Life, Connecticut Mutual, Connecticut General, Phoenix Mutual...
...Massachusetts Investors Trust as of Jan. i. Mr. Adams has not announced other plans for re-entering private business, but he is an old hand at investment management. Reputed the wealthiest of the famed Adams family, he resigned directorships in some 35 corporations, including A. T. & T., John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance, Boston's Old Colony Trust, upon entering the Cabinet. He is still a trustee of Boston Personal Property Trust, oldest investment trust in the U. S. (founded 1893). As Harvard's treasurer for 30 years, he watched the University's endowment funds grow from...
...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...