Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Awarded. To Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime (1925-28) Secretary of State; an honorary D.C.L. (Doctor of Civil Law) ; at Oxford University. Awarded. To Dr. Hugo Eckener, Commander of the Graf Zeppelin; the Ntional Geographic Society's gold medal. He said he would travel to the U. S. in March to get it. Elected. Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime (1928) Democratic Candidate for President; to be Board Chairman of County Trust Co. (Manhattan), a post created following the suicide of his longtime friend James J. Riordan (TIME, Nov. 18) Elected. Vice President George Willard Smith of New England Mutual Life Insurance...
...Grande valley. Last year he supported the Hoover ticket when his fellow Democrats refused to take his advice on Farm Relief. Died. Mrs. Mary J. Forrest Fontaine, 84, sister of the famed Confederate Generals Nathan Bedford, Jesse, and Jeffry Forrest; in Dallas, Tex. Died. Mrs. Margaret Stevens, 94, onetime Civil War hospital worker, a founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,* at Pricetown, Ohio. She had six brothers (and six sisters) who said they never smoked or drank...
...International Civil Aeronautics Conference at Washington...
...although the college will undoubtedly mark its own birthday, it will also have a prominent part to play in the state-wide celebrations which take place next year. The Law School will have an important position, as the observance of the tercentenary emphasizes the introduction of self-government and civil liberties into the future United States. The College, which has contributed so much to the intellectual and political progress of the state and the nation, cannot fall to be one of the chief sources of interest to the hundreds of thousands who are expected to visit the state during...
...Chinese authorities seized the Soviet-operated Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, July 22) and expelled Communist agents from Manchuria, Chinese and Russian soldiers have scowled at each other across Manchuria's barren border, fired occasional shots, made desultory raids. Last week tension snapped. Soviet strategists, choosing a moment when civil war wracked half of China, sent four modern divisions, complete with tanks. over the line. Two divisions moved west from Vladivostok, two east from Chita to clamp Manchuria in a Soviet vise...