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Died. Oscar Stanton De Priest, 80, first Negro to serve on Chicago's city council (1915-17), first of his race ever sent by Northern voters to the House of Representatives*(three-term Congressman from Chicago's "Black Belt," 1929-35); of a kidney ailment; in Chicago. In Washington he worked unceasingly for a national anti-lynching law. His wife and Mrs. Herbert Hoover scandalized the South when the First Lady received her at a White House tea; shortly thereafter Alabama's late Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin calculated that to "punch De Priest in the nose" would...
...seniors are: Stanton A. Cook, Charles F. Gallagher, William R., Sherwood, and Franklin C. Southworth...
...reported after the last Corporation meeting that one of the following men had been chosen to be presented to the Overseers today: F. Stanton Deland '36, James J. Gaffney, Jr. '37, Clifford W. Wilson '37, Thomas Bolles, crew coach, and Lloyd Jordan, football coach...
After he got the word from the ministry, Brewer tried fruitlessly to get an explanation from Spanish officials, then asked U.S. Ambassador Stanton Griffis for help. Ambassador Griffis cabled Washington for instructions. Finally, on State Department orders, he protested to the Spanish Foreign Ministry...
...setmakers were not feeling as cheery as Frank Stanton. Because of the continued slump in sales, layoffs and production cuts were announced last week by Radio Corp. of America, Philco Corp., Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., Emerson Radio & Phonograph Co., and Westinghouse Electric Corp. Admiral Corp. announced that unless sales pick up soon, it will have to borrow money to carry its big inventories...