Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan socialite, board chairman of Devoe & Raynolds Co. (paints, varnishes), went pheasant hunting with a party of friends near the Mellon-owned Rolling Rock Country Club at Ligonier. Pa. Some birds flushed, the whole party fired. Hunter Kountze, 30 yards in front, received a full charge of no. 6 shot in his stomach, was rushed to a hospital...
That he accepted $40,000 from the Rock...
...ousted board included Banker Charles Hayden, J. & W. Seligman. Partner Frederick Strauss, President Thomas Ignatius Parkinson of Equitable Life. Because Nathan Amster got in on the ground floor of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. reorganization in 1917. is now a member of its executive committee, Wall Street was not surprised that the new board included two Rock Island men. Edward Norphlet Brown, chairman of the executive committee (he is also board chairman of stricken St. Louis-San Francisco) and Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck. At its first meeting the new board chose Insurgent Amster as president...
...person one more much-needed vote to his California total. Two million good Republican dollars had been poured into what looked like a fruitless campaign. Wall Street, Eastern Industry and Society were earnestly, almost desperately for the President-but they did not seem enough to blast loose the rock of discontent sunk deep in the electorate at large. The last week of the Republican campaign was much like the first-only hotter. Every member of the Cabinet except Attorney General Mitchell (a nominal Democrat) had done his bit and more for the President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed...
...TAKE GREEN OFF THE ROCK PILE...