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Died. Lieut. Col. Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin, 59, senior member of McAlpin. Kauffman, Merle-Smith & Smart (Manhattan lawyers), onetime (1908-11) inspector general of the New York National Guard, son of General Edwin Augustus McAlpin who helped found Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel, director of Greeley Square Hotel Co. (which operates the hotel), and of Women's Hotel Co.; of apoplexy; in Manhattan...
Three months after the eligibility order was issued occurred the Paris flight of Charles Augustus Lindbergh which "through the wildest stretch of the imagination, could not be construed as 'part of the duties incident to' ... membership [in the Missouri National Guard or the Air Corps Reserve]." Public clamor demanded a D. F. C. for Lindbergh, and the Air Corps expediently recommended the award...
Babe Ruth. James Joseph Tunney, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Charles Spencer Chaplin would be named princes...
...Recently there were rumors that Clarence Dillon would retire from Dillon, Read & Co., on Jan. i. The garbled nature of these rumors (denied at the time) was revealed with the announcement that Duncan H. Read, son of the late William Augustus Read, has resigned. A year ago William Augustus Read Jr. retired. Now Dillon, Read & Co. is Readless...
Inspector General. Aside from their feats of flying the Atlantic cleanly, points of resemblance between Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Dieudonné ("Doudou") Coste are few. But last week arose a new one. Much as Col. Lindbergh became technical adviser for T. A. T. and Pan American Airways. Capt. Coste an nounced himself inspector general of lines (technical adviser) for the French air transport system, Air Union...