Word: adger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected Bertrand James Perry after the death of William Henry Sargeant last December. Hartford's Phoenix Mutual picked Arthur M. Collens, a clergyman's son, who had been vice president under the late Archibald Ashley Welch. Insurance tragedy of the year befell Penn Mutual's William Adger Law, who was accidentally shot and killed by his good friend Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., on a North Carolina hunting trip last winter (TIME, Feb. 6). Mr. Law's successor was William Harmstead Kingsley, who started in the company as an office...
Last week a hunting party of three men set out to shoot quail near Greensboro, N. C. They were Samuel Clay Williams, board chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) and a onetime NRAdministrator; President William Adger Law of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.; A. L. Brooks, a Greensboro lawyer. Walking through a patch of honeysuckle, Hunter Williams tripped. His gun went off. The shot hit Hunter Law, 20 feet away, in the left leg. It took almost two hours to get Hunter Law, 71, to Siler City for first aid. From there he was hurried to Greensboro where...
Died. William Adger Law, 71, president of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.; of a gunshot wound; in Greensboro...
March 1933, at the great Goodyear-Zeppelin airship dock at Akron, Ohio. A high-school band blaring "Dixie." Lines of shivering spectators on the cold concrete. Mrs. William Adger Moffett on the arm of her husband, Rear Admiral Moffett, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. Eight pretty girls from Macon, Ga. The huge silver bow of the ZRS-5-. . . Mrs. Moffett mounted a bunting-draped platform, pulled a red-white-&-blue cord. Two hatches in the airship's nose flopped open and out flew 48 startled pigeons. Cried Mrs. Moffett: "I christen thee Macon!"* Mighty cheers...
Left. By Anton Joseph Cermak, martyred Mayor of Chicago: an estate of $545,378-Died. Lieut. Elliott McFarlane Moore, U. S. Naval Reserve. 31, son-in-law of the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett (chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics who died in the Akron disaster), director of Wilmington-Catalina Airline. Ltd.; of injuries suffered when a W.C. A. ten-passenger amphibion plane, taking off for the California mainland, capsized a half-mile from Catalina Island, killing the copilot, injuring the pilot...