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Coincident with the release of Mr. Brand's alibi, Dr. Harry Augustus Garfield, president of Williams College and during the War, chairman of the Fair Price Committee, issued a statement: "Mr. Hoover had absolutely no part in this matter...
...Mitchel Field, 25,000 swarmed up to the landing field, bought out sandwich stands, played with the cat which was abandoned by Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Died. Rupert Alexander George Augustus Cambridge, Viscount Trematon, 20, nephew of British Queen-Empress Mary; at Lyons, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. His father, the Earl of Athlone, is Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. As everyone knows, the Queen and her brother, the Earl of Athlone, were of the Teck Teutonic ducal house of the Kingdom of Württemberg; but by royal British Decree of July 14, 1917, the name of the British house of Teck was changed to Cambridge...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh hopped off from airport at Williams, Ariz., in his new and unchristened Ryan monoplane, landed on plateau six miles away, climbed out, went to nearby ranch, asked astonished owner for some lunch, got it. Inhabitants of Williams heard Col. Lindbergh's plane was down, rushed to plateau in automobiles, found plane unharmed, found note in Col. Lindbergh's handwriting stuck in window: "Gone to lunch...
...century, a tall, well-set-up young executive given to cheerful pugnacity and serious business. The late Henry H. Rogers, Standard Oil partner, recognized the qualities, and persuaded John D. Ryan to manage the properties of the Amalgamated Copper Co. in Montana and to fight the late Fritz Augustus Heinze for control of the Montana copper-industry. Manager Ryan won his fight. When Henry Rogers died, in 1909, Ryan became president of the Amalgamated. Next year he dealt with Montana copper-companies in such a way that Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought the subsidiaries of the Amalgamated, and after...