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...Died. Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, 55, U. S. chargé d'affaires in Germany since Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson's recall last November; of thrombosis; in Berlin...
Died. Edward Prentiss Costigan, 64, liberal Democrat, onetime (1930-36) U. S. Senator from Colorado; of a heart attack induced by lobar pneumonia; in Denver...
...Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, agreed in principle with his President but cheerfully recalled how Michigan Democrats, in their weakened condition prior to 1928, used to vote in the Republican primaries as a matter of course. "In the Southern States," observed Senator Brown, "it is about the only way the [Republican] minority can express itself...
...other members: Trowbridge Callaway, A. A. Berle Jr., John A. Coleman, Maurice L. Farrell, Kenneth C. Hogate, Thomas H. McInnerney, John W. Prentiss...
Died. John Wing Prentiss, 62, investment banker, one of the senior partners of Hornblower & Weeks; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Influential in much automobile financing (Dodge, General Motors, Hudson), he told the Board of Tax Appeals in 1927 that he had thrice offered Henry Ford $1,000,000,000 for Ford Motors. He died the day after the New York Stock Exchange adopted its new constitution, which he helped draft...