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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Elizabeth M. D. Robinson of Washington, D. C., daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Theodore Douglas Robinson; and Jacques de Sibour, Washington socialite; in Washington...
...give flying passengers convenience New York City authorities have commissioned Clarence D. Chamberlin to lay out a field on Barren Island in New York Harbor. Last week Barren Island was so far prepared that the Curtiss flying service made arrangements to move its headquarters ters there from famed Curtiss Field...
...Dean of Former Executive Editors that his health is now so good that he now lights up a cigaret. The last time we remember seeing Mr. Swope smoke was in 1891, and he did it then, he said, only to get cigaret pictures of Delia Fox and Camille D'Arville...
Died. Edward J. King, 61, of Galesburg, Ill., since 1915 a member of the U. S. House of Representatives; of heart disease; in Washington, D...
...stock yard. In November, 1922, when Mr. Saunders was Piggly Wiggly's successful president, Wall Street operators started a bear movement in Piggly Wiggly stock. Angry, Mr. Saunders hastened from his native Memphis to Manhattan. They would sell Piggly short, would they? Well, he'd show them, and he did. He ran Piggly Wiggly stock up from 40 past 120, realized some millions of paper profits. Then, unfortunately, the Stock Exchange Governors decided that a corner had been established in Piggly Wiggly and took the stock off the board. With trading suspended, there was no market, no quotation...