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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Avenue on a white horse, with snowflakes bombarding his red whiskers. A year later Taft named him to the Supreme Court but the chill of that day seemed to stick in his bones. When 20 years later he was again nominated for the Supreme Court-the second man twice appointed to it*-he was quite a different figure. He had left the Court in 1916 to campaign unsuccessfully against Woodrow Wilson, a campaign in which he was called "The Human Icicle" and "The Animated Feather Duster." He had served as Secretary of State to the unfortunate Mr. Harding...
...husband entered the station restaurant, spied Justice Field at a table. Mrs. Terry turned on her heel, left the room. The 66-year-old onetime Chief Justice of California's Supreme Court walked quietly up behind the 72-year-old U. S. Supreme Court Justice, slapped him twice. Before he could slap again, quick David Neagle shot him dead...
Married. Owen D. (for nothing) Young, 62, board chairman of General Electric Co.; and twice-widowed Mrs. Louise Powis Brown Clark, 50; in St. Augustine, Fla. His first wife, Josephine Sheldon Edmonds Young, died two years ago. He first met the second Mrs. Young in the Philippines, where she helped her first hus band, Elwood Stanley Brown, in Y. M. C. A. work. Her second husband. Industrial Engineer Horace Clark, died in 1929. Mr. Young's four children, Mrs. Young's three beamed from front pews during the ceremony, at the conclusion of which the grave bride...
...York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. went into court twice last week in the matter of losing railway mileage. In New Haven, Conn., trustees of New England's No. 1 railroad filed a petition in Federal court seeking authority to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon 204.34 mi. of track in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut because it was unprofitable.* In Providence, R. I., the New Haven was an interested party in the prosecution and conviction of Joseph Gemma, 40, for "stealing a railroad in broad daylight." A Superior court jury found the operator...
...Then vice president in charge of the marine division, Jacob Levison proposed the formation of a new company to take over the insurance of the old, minus San Francisco losses. Each director was asked to subscribe to stock in the new corporation in a ratio of twice the amount of the par value of his former holdings. All but one agreed. Mr. Levison made their subscription notes security for a $250,000 loan from the Crocker-Woolworth Bank. To policyholders he offered 50% in cash and 50% in stock of the new company. On every stockholder he levied...