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...boats which took to the water yesterday were Donald G. Parrot, John L. Bremer, 2nd, Walter N. Kernan, 2nd, Phillips Hallowell, John R. Richards, George W. Overton, Jr., John N. Fulham, Jr., Bayard H. Dillingham, Alexander B. Comstock, Jr., John J. Rowe, Jr., John B. Lloyd, Robert W. Harding, Lawrence M. Rile '39, Roger A. Derby, Jr., Thomas E. McCormick, Jr., and David Stiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '40 Oarsmen Launch Shells For First Outdoor Workout | 3/10/1937 | See Source »

...there was no rest for janitors, even on Sunday. Through the marble halls of Senate and House office buildings they pushed crates of furniture and filing cabinets. Painters slapped on new paint. Scrub women wore out their knees. There was a minor tempest in the office of Senator John Overton of Louisiana because missing from its place beside his desk was the special coffee pot in which his daughter Katharine brews him French coffee four times daily. The House restaurant, newly redecorated, appeared with a new menu on which the cheapest luncheon was 60? instead of 45?. Arthur Vandenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Pre-Session | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...Omnibus Flood Control bill, authorizing $320,000,000 for reservoirs, dams, levees and spillways throughout the land; and a complementary $272,000,000 bill, sponsored by Louisiana's Overton, for flood control in the lower Mississippi Valley. Bursting with political pork, the Omnibus bill was passed by the House four days before adjournment last August, filibustered to death in the Senate by Maryland's Tydings. Revived by the floods of last March, it was pared of its local favors by a stern economy order from President Roosevelt. Called by Senator Copeland "the first porkless water bill ever passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death & Taxes | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Founded in 1924 by a Chicago Negro named Anthony Overton, Victory had an uninspiring record until a few years ago when control moved East to New York City's Harlem. Founder Overton, who made a tidy fortune selling cosmetics, bleaching lotions and hair straighteners to his fellow blackamoors, also ran a bank, Chicago's defunct Douglass National, only national bank ever chartered by Negroes. Then regarded as the No. U.S. Negro financier, Overton sluiced a considerable amount of Victory's funds into stock in his ailing bank. Upshot was that Victory lost its licenses in a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Victory | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...also promised that the Democratic State Central Committee would promptly bequeath her the nomination which Governor Allen had just won to serve out the remaining year of the late "Kingnsh's" term. Said Governor Noe: "This is the proudest moment of my life." Said Senator John H. Overton of Louisiana: "It is a just and beautiful tribute to the memory of Senator Long." Said Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkan sas: "It will be nice to have a woman's company in the Senate." Said Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond of New Orleans, longtime leader of Louisiana's embattled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lady from Louisiana | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

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