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Died. Col. Agar Adamson, 65, Wartime (1916-18) commander of the famed Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry ("Princess Pats"); in London; after an operation...
Prohibition. The Association's policy to avoid bitter feelings by hushing discussion of Prohibition repeal was jeopardized by the presence of a determined wet wing, consisting largely of New York lawyers headed by John Giraud Agar. Firm chairmanship was necessary to keep the subject sidetracked...
...Yale, Seawanhaka and Corinthian Yacht. Mr. Vanderbilt's nearest competitor is Alexander Smith Cochran, member of 13 clubs. Tied at 12: Harry Payne Whitney and Clarence H. Mackey. Tied at 11: C. Oliver, Iselin, J. P. Morgan, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. Tied at 10: John G. Agar, Vincent Astor, Preston Davie, Marshall Field, James W. Gerard. John D. Rockefeller Jr. belongs to only three...
...collapse of the Califate on the Bosphorus, Islam became torn by the question of the succession. Who was to be Calif of Islam? Ex-Sultan of Turkey, Mohammed VI, who was temporal and spiritual head of Mohammedanism, said he was Calif; but that did not settle it. The Agar Khan of Bombay, the Emir of Afghanistan, Sultan Mulai Yusef of Morocco, King Fuad of Egypt all wanted to be Calif. The President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, said that the Turkish Parliament would in the future impersonate the Calif. Abdul-Medjid Effendi, last Turkish Calif, declared with his predecessor, Mohammed...
...Dartmouth; Ray Stannard Baker; Herbert S. Houston, editor of Our World; General Tasker H. Bliss; Dr. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins; Governor A. C. Ritchie of Maryland; T. I. Parkinson, Acting Dean of Columbia; Dr. Alexander Smith, representing Dr. John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton; John G. Agar, George Barr Baker and Edgar Rickard of the Commission for Relief in Belgium Educational Foundation; Van Lear Black; Robert S. Brookings, President of the Institute of Economics; Judge J. Harry Covington, John Daniels and H. J. Fisher of the English Speaking Union; Charles S. Guggenheimer; John W. Hallowell, former Overseer...