Word: schuylers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Theodore F. Shuey, 88, dean of official reporters in the U. S. Senate; after a six-week illness; at Swope, Va. He joined the Senate staff at the age of 23, recorded the induction of every Vice President since Schuyler Colfax (1869), never missed a working day in 65 years. Friendly to most Senators, he edited and rewrote many a turgid declamation before entering it in the Congressional Record. To honor him, Senators ceased talking for one minute last week...
...Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married. Margaret Dawes. 24, daughter of Utilities Man Rufus Cutler Dawes, president of Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition; and one Beverly Jefferson, 28; in Chicago. Married, Sarah Schuyler Butler, thirtyish, onetime vice chairman of New York's Republican State Committee, only child of Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler; and Captain Neville Lawrence, London broker; in Manhattan. Seeking Divorce. Joan Crawford Fairbanks, cinemactress; from Douglas Fairbanks Jr., cinemactor. Grounds: "grievous mental cruelty"; "a jealous...
...Schuyler Merritt, longtime Republican Congressman from Connecticut's 4th District, resigned as boardchairman of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. (locks). He was succeeded by President Walter C. Allen. Vice President & Treasurer William Gibson Carey Jr., 36, stepped up to the presidency. A onetime district manager for Container Corp. of America, smart young Lockman Carey is son-in-law of John Henry Towne, son of the founder...
...second). I knew him rather well and never heard that he "ate upside down." He had a flair for writing about the family, much of what he had to say being incorporated in a book on the Roeblings published two years ago by the University Press of Princeton, Hamilton Schuyler, author. His brother, Ferdinand, was never president of the Roebling Co., but treasurer, and was the smartest of all in a business way, although he had his full share of weaknesses, one of which was to quarrel with me frequently. However, in the 37 years I have been...
...first-day session lasted 19 minutes. Lame ducks were loudly joshed back & forth across the aisle. No business was done. From Denver, Democrat Walter Walker flew to Washington, was sworn in as Colorado's Senator pending the arrival of the official election certificate of Republican Karl Schuyler. Two other new Senators: North Carolina's Robert Reynolds and Washington's Elyot Grammer. Absent was Pennsylvania's Senator Davis, whose right to sit has been questioned since his indictment in connection with the Moose lottery (TIME, Aug. 29; Oct. 10). His wife explained that he had gone...