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...service in the field of cancer and allied diseases have made the whole country its debtor." President Roosevelt's message summed up the attitude of the congregation in the Waldorf-Astoria that evening. There has never been any valid criticism against Memorial Hospital since Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton Halleck Cullum, granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton, founded the institution as a protest against those who considered cancer a vile, shameful disease. Mrs. Cullum laid the cornerstone of Memorial Hospital's first building at 106th Street and Central Park West, and died of cancer before the structure was finished...
...Traders, Inc. Peter Fletcher wanted to see a prompt 25% reduction on ad valorem rates, 50%, on specific rates. He thought and said: "We are now in the midst of the greatest worldwide tariff war in history." Heartily in accord were Charles T. Riotte, lace & embroidery man; Howard S. Cullum, Commissioner of the Port of New York Authority; Philip le Boutillier, president of Best & Co.; Wallace Thompson, editor of Ingenieria International...
Harvey C. Hayes, of the Navy Research Department, for a new ocean-floor measuring instrument, a Cullum medal...
Pedro C. Sanchez, for measurements and surveys of Mexico, a Cullum medal...
Lucien Gallois, of the University of Paris, for work in the history of geography, a Cullum medal...