Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That brought the brothers about even. Perhaps young Ray Lyman even had an edge. He certainly had an edge when Her bert Clark Hoover, his Stanford contem porary, called him to War-time Washington as an assistant. Superior Judge Curtis Dwight remained, augustly but withal provincially, in California, while young Ray Lyman mixed excitingly in national affairs...
...ended, Ray Lyman returned to Stanford and Fate gave the next two spurts to Curtis Dwight. In 1919 he ascended to California's Supreme Bench. In 1922 he became Chief Justice. Then, after the Denby trouble, when President Coolidge was at a loss for a man to put in as Secretary of the Navy, a state-loyal California newshawk sent in the name of Curtis Dwight Wilbur?"Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California." On paper it looked magnificent, and Calvin Coolidge had not then been President long enough to know how magnificent paper can make some things...
Died. Ogden Mills, 72, Manhattan financier & philanthropist, father of Under-Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills; of pneumonia and complications; in Manhattan. The Mills millions were founded by Darius Ogden Mills, "Forty-Niner" and California banker. His son, Ogden Mills, was born in Sacramento, often revisited California. After being graduated from Harvard (1878) he spurred his father's enterprises, added to them (Mills hotels for poor workingmen; mines, real estate, banks, railroads, steamships, public utilities). He was a famed host, racing stableman, patron of the American Museum of Natural History. His sister is Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict...
...envelope contained nothing more disturbing than an affectionate note from Lieut. James H. Carrington, U.S.N., to his wife, it was swiftly despatched to Havana, there to be relayed by air mail to the Carrington home in California. But rarely had a note from a Naval lieutenant to his wife caused such eager discussion...
...sent Richard to military school and then to Trinity College at Hartford, Conn. On vacations he played small roles in stock with his mother. Some film people, on location near the Connecticut town where he was working as a clerk, took him to California when they left. His part in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blos soms made him famous...