Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington, March 7--Legislation desired by the United Aircraft and Transport Co. was rushed through the Senate in 1930 after the air line hired Lehr Fess, lawyer son of Simeon Fess. Republican, Ohio, to "expedite" it, Col. Paul H. Henderson, vice president of the company testified today...
Smokeout. Major result of the cross-fire of accusation and denial was that smart little Hugo LaFayette Black's Senate investigating committee at last got onetime Postmaster General Brown to testify before it, no holds barred. Less than a week after he had written his fellow Ohioan, Senator Simeon D. Fess, that he would face the committee "at the earliest date convenient" and that "anything I may say may be used against me in any court in the land," Walter Brown walked into the committee's hearing room in the Senate Office Building...
...talk about himself. He does not even like to have it said that he has made millions, but today, father of eight children (seven of them daughters, all married), he owns a ranch in Wyoming, "the show place of the Black Hills," from which like Hearst at San Simeon he rules a far-flung empire by private wires. He has also an estate at Sands Point, L.I., and this year he bought the magnificent Miami villa of the late Albert Russel Erskine...
...argument: Should State governments be abolished as political anachronisms and their administrative authority divided up among fen regional districts, as recommended by Ohio State University's Professor Peter H. Odegard, or turned over to their largest and richest cities, as favored by University of Chicago's Professor Simeon Eldridge Leland...
Married. George ("Fanny") Hearst, 29, fat eldest son of William Randolph Hearst: and one Lorna Pratt Velie; by California's Governor James Rolph Jr.; at the Hearst ranch in San Simeon, Calif. Last year Bridegroom Hearst was divorced by Mrs. Blanche Wilbur Hearst at Los Angeles...