Word: chapman
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Died. Rev. Dr. Henry Chapman Swearingen, 63, of St. Paul, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; of heart disease; aboard a train near Hastings, Neb. As a result of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, he was appointed chairman of a special commission of 15 in 1925 "to study the causes of unrest in the denomination." Later he headed a commission investigating marriage, divorce and remarriage...
Robert Stanley Dollar, son of the late Capt. Robert Dollar, was elected president of United States Lines Co, of Nevada, successor company to Paul Wadsworth Chapman's United States Lines, Inc. (TIME, Aug. 17, et seq.). The new U. S. Lines was backed by the Dollar-Dawson-Roosevelt-International Mercantile Marine interests. Although Mr. Dollar will be president of the company as originally intended (business matters made him delay his election, William F. Humphrey, attorney for Herbert Fleishhacker temporarily took the post) the active management will be in the hands of Roosevelt Line officers: Philip Albright, Small Franklin, Kermit...
...Chapman '35, L. A. Cook '34, T. L. Dammann '35, A. B. Deardon '34, G. R. Divens '35, Jarvis Farley '32, D. A. Fuss '32, A. B. Gardner '33, C. T. Hall '34, G. M. Hazelton '33, H. E. Holm '35, Frederick Ireland '33, G. N. Johnson '34, J. R. Keim '34, W. H. Kerr '34, R. W. Kuhl...
Club members now abroad include Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews who sailed for inner Mongolia fortnight ago; Gene Lamb in Tibet; Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey leading his "dude" expedition down the Amazon. Lincoln Ellsworth was last week preparing a 1932 flight with Bernt Bal-chen across Antarctica. Sir George Hubert Wilkins sailed from Manhattan last week for, it was said, a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini concerning another submarine trip toward the North Pole...
Married. Gladys Swarthout, lissom Metropolitan Opera contralto specializing in boys' roles; and Frank Michler Chapman Jr., concert baritone, son of the famed ornithologist, first husband of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb's literary daughter Elisabeth ("Buffy") Cobb Brody...