Word: macke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Daniel Rust, 61, onetime migrant worker who, with his brother Mack, devised the first successful mechanical cotton picker (1927); of a heart attack; in Pine Bluff, Ark. When Inventor Rust demonstrated his machine (which did the work of 50 to 100 field hands) in 1936, depression-weary Southerners feared it would cause unemployment, refused to use it on a large scale. Undaunted, Rust kept improving his machine, in 1949 put it into mass production, soon harvested a long-awaited fortune...
Shortchanged. In Miami, three nights after he robbed Mack's Liquor Store of $46, a holdup man returned, pointed a pistol at Proprietor Herman Mack, told him: "I read in the papers where I got $600 ... I came back for the rest," made off with...
Newell B. Mack '56, of Kirkland and Madison, Wisconsin, was elected treasurer, defeating Irving K. Zola '56 and Bradley W. Stark '56. In the largest contest, Bridges won the post of secretary over four other nominees. Bridges, of Eliot and Sanford, Maine, was elected on the evening's only second balloting. Other nominees were Zola, Murphy, Richard S. Dolins '55, and Stephen L. Reynolds...
...three sophomores named to the new council are unaffected by the revote. Elected by the Class of 1956 were Bradley W. Stark, Dunster; Irving K. Zola, Adams; and Newell B. Mack, Kirkland...
Alexander was vice-chairman of the Union Committee of his class, '55; Mack was a member of the Union Committee of the Class of '56. Zola and Dolins were members of the Smoker Committees of their respective freshman classes...