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Informed that his first flying teacher, Major Ira O. Biffle, was desperately ill of heart disease and destitute in Chicago, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh contributed $50 to a fund for his medical care...
...Edwin Augustus Hills, 2d. '87, of Brookline, was chosen as Manager of the 195 polo team after the competition which just ended. He prepared at Rival's School...
Rome is strong, the Catholics are also building a mighty cathedral. But last week Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David's cathedral seemed a little in the lead. To it Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 68, and his brother, William Vestey, Baron Vestey, 75, promised ?220,000 ($1,200,000) to build a vast central tower 327 ft. high in memory of their parents...
...flames. Nevertheless, with the weather generally clear, mail flights were resumed on schedule and the first day passed without mishap. Meanwhile even with the Army grounded all week, the Administration's position on the airmail controversy continued to be anything but comfortable. The cavalier treatment accorded Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh by the White House had done President Roosevelt no popular good. Millions of citizens insisted on viewing the differences between these national heroes as something of a personal encounter. By last week the situation plainly called; for diplomacy. As a peace offering Secretary of War Dern asked Col. Lindbergh...
...January, recommended regulation of a moderate character through a special Federal body. Sagely Mr. Dickinson's committee said: "It must always be recognized that the average man has an inherent instinct for gambling. ... If abolished in one form, it seems always to crop out in another." Like Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.. John Dickinson was a child prodigy. Graduated from Johns Hopkins at 19, he has been associated with Princeton, where he got his doctorate and later taught, and Harvard, where he got his law degree and taught at Radcliffe. He left a law chair at Pennsylvania...