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Great is the name that President Roebling bears in Trenton. John Augustus Roebling, engineer, musician, favorite pupil of Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, laid the first plans for the Brooklyn Bridge. After the Civil War he and his son, the late great Col. Washington A. Roebling, built a factory in Trenton to make their own steel cables for that miraculous structure. Col. Roebling finished it. In 1933 Mary Gindhart, a customer's consultant in the Philadelphia office of C. D. Barney & Co., married Siegfried Roebling, rich grandson of Col. Roebling and vice president of John A. Roebling...
...Delmar Leighton will be the Head Patroness this evening. The other patronesses are Mrs. Harold H. Burbank, Mrs. Henry Chauncey, and Mrs. James B. Munn. The Freshman ushers are Arthur Canter, William C. Coleman, Jr., Thomas V. Realy, Jr., B. Stephen Hall, William R. Maginder, Peter E. Pratt, Augustus Soule and William L. Wood...
...Lympne, England Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh zoomed away in their new orange & black monoplane Miles Hawk, turned up few hours later in Rome...
...Committee] a man of pugnacious qualities, who never ceased to fight until he had accomplished his purpose regardless of what methods he was compelled to employ to do so. ... Seconded by Victor Murdock, of Kansas, likewise thwarted in his overweening desire to be placed on the Appropriations Committee, and Augustus P. Gardner, of Massachusetts, disappointed at not being made chairman of the Committee on Immigration, Mr. Norris led a group of about twenty-five insurgent Republicans, who, with the Democrats, constituted a major- ity in the House. . . ." ED. Achmet's Women Sirs: In my Jan. n copy of TIME...
Died. Rev. Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour, 69, since 1929 president of Brown University; after long illness, fortnight before his retirement and the inauguration of Henry Merritt Wriston (TIME, Oct. 19) as his successor; in Providence...