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Died. Dr. Henry Drury Hatfield, 87, onetime (1913-17) West Virginia Republican Governor and U.S. Senator (1928-34), a talented bone surgeon and cousin of the last Hatfield to feud with a McCoy, whose term in the Senate was marked by sharp volleys at F.D.R.'s New Deal Administration as a "brain trust endeavoring to force socialism upon the American people under the guise of industrial democracy"; in Huntington...
...some toweringly strange trials. Murders were a specialty, and in all, Giesler handled more than 70 murder cases over the years. Not one of his clients was executed, not even Bugsy Siegel, the excess-personnel man at Murder, Inc. And when Norman Selby, the fighter known as Kid McCoy, * was charged with the murder of his mistress, Giesler got a verdict of manslaughter even though Selby had earlier insisted to the police that he was guilty. Giesler's explanation of the confession: the Kid was so depressed that he wanted...
...time, there were two fighters called McCoy, Selby was a good one, and the other pug, by comparison, was a glass-jawed failure. When fans referred to Selby, they called him "the real McCoy," adding a phrase to the American language...
...brand the world's leading soap and gathered together an industrial complex based mainly on products from fats and oils. Meanwhile, in an overlapping segment of the fat and oil industry, two Dutch margarine-making families -the Van den Berghs and Jurgens-battled each other in a Hatfield-McCoy feud for years until, exhausted, they finally merged. Then, indulging in the fine European preference for cartels over competition, the Dutch and British companies merged to form Unilever in 1929 to "stabilize" the fat and oil market...
Wallace McDonald, Director of the Financial Aid Office, upon hearing that he was "in on it," charged Watson with a "conveniently foggy memory." McDonald recalled that his only contact with the matter was at a meeting of the Committee, with Watson and Trottenberg in attendance. Bob McCoy, a student director of the HSA, summed up the whole situation: "Nobody seems to know exactly what happened...