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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Samuel Insull Jr., son of Public Utilitarian Samuel Insull; to be vice-chairman of Middle West Utilities Corp., of which his father is board chairman; in Chicago...
Died. John Morrison Hansen, 56, Board Chairman of Standard Steel Car Co.; at La Rochelle, France; of apoplexy. In 1894 he designed the first steel freight...
...Other famed 79ers: Frank Presbrey (advertising), Trustee Cyrus Hall McCormick (Board Chairman of International Harvester Co.): Trustee Edward Wright Sheldon (Manhattan lawyer); onetime Princeton Dean William Francis Magie; the late financier Cleveland Hoadley Dodge; the late famed Judge Alfred Salem Niles of Baltimore; the late Banker Trustee Parker Douglas Handy of Manhattan; Robert Harris McCarter, onetime (1903-08) Attorney-General of New Jersey; the late Peter Joseph Hamilton of Mobile, author, onetime (1913-21) Judge of Porto Rican District Court...
From California's sunny foggy strand to Manhattan's rocky banks went news last week of great import for future air lanes. In California, the West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chose a 1700-acre tract at Sunnyvale, 50 air miles from Mare Island Navy Yard (at San Francisco). This tract was the Board's first choice of an anchorage. Second was some 2,000 acres, near San Diego, a; Camp Kearney recommended for a mooring mast...
...Manhattan, onetime Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, now enterprising citizen of big projects (part owner of New York "Giants," trustee of New York State College of Forestry, director of the National Surety Company, board chairman of the County Trust Co., and president of Empire State Building Corp.), announced that the plans of the Empire State building, world's largest, tallest, on the old Waldorf-Astoria site on Fifth Avenue, would include a mooring mast as dirigible way-station, 1,300 feet above the street...