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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...
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...
...lawyer, was elected National Commander, succeeding Louis Johnson of Clarksburg. W Va. Son of an Irish immigrant Commander Hayes joined the Navy in 1917 as apprentice seaman, was soon commissioned an ensign. He served at Great Lakes Naval Training Station as aide to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett. After the War he resumed his law practice, helped organize the Decatur Legion Post, became Illinois State Commander in 1929. An acknowledged authority on veteran affairs, he was made vice chairman of the Legion's Rehabilitation Committee, had a large hand in drawing up the four-point rehabilitation program...
...last month stole a march and anticipated the honorary degree season by giving an LL. D. to Samuel Seabury, famed inquisitor of Tammany Hall. Last fortnight the College of Charleston (S. C.) held its commencement, announced it had intended giving an LL. D. to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett who went down with the Akron. Last week Amherst College, at a special convocation, gave an LL. D. to Newton D. Baker. Citation: "Scholar in the fields of history and political science, leader in your chosen profession of the law, most beloved and trusted in your city, Cleveland." Said...