While I tend to dislike resurrecting old threads, I remembered this one and became very curious if anything ever came of it.
Mullinator stands hunched over a metal slab, that is attached to 4 different chains on each corner. A bizarre amalgam of medical and electrical tools and machines are scattered around the room. Suddenly a flash of lightning illuminates the entire room and we get our first glimpse of Mullinator’s face. It is contorted in a scowl with one eye wildly roaming. Suddenly, the door to his lab is thrown open.
Hamlet: Stop this insanity, Mully, you can’t play God!!!
Mully: But I must know… I MUST KNOW!!!
Hamlet: NNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Another flash of lightning brings a year old thread to life. Hamlet promptly faints.
Mullinator: Yessss. YESSSS!!! YESSSSSSS!!!
I am wondering what lockbox and what would be my share in the loot in getting it open?
Despite my submitting convincing photographic evidence to the Social Security Administration’s historian that “Bowtie Man” is Rep. Joshua Twing Brooks of Pennsylvania, he has decided that he wants positive proof that Brooks was there at the 1935 signing ceremony with President Roosevelt.
Well, he may as well stop holding his breath. Brooks’ papers as a congressman do not seem to be in any archive today. I tried the National Archives, the Pennsylvania State Archives, Yale University (Brooks’ alma mater), the Pittsburgh Public Library (Brooks’ hometown), and two national guides to archived collections of personal papers.
I also looked at the account of the signing ceremony published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1935; no mention of Brooks. (Anyone who lives in Pittsburgh is welcome to check the news story as published in the other daily newspaper, whose name escapes me.)
Walloon, I suggest you try to reach Brook’s family. In my experience, they always have leads and information (and in this case, pehaps papers) that prove useful.