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Robert Emmet Dowling, Manhattan financier, was elected a director of New York Life Insurance Co., filling the vacancy left by the late Darwin Pearl Kingsley. President Buckner revealed that Calvin Coolidge's last official letter to the company was one dated Dec. 28, expressing satisfaction at Director Dowling's acceptance of the invitation...
...Died. Darwin Pearl Kingsley. 75, board chairman of New York Life Insurance Co.; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...created the New York State Housing Board, chairmanned by Brooklyn's Darwin Rush James. Under its control private corporations were set up to: i) Build model apartments renting for $11 per room per month ($12.50 in congested Manhattan); 2) borrow 663% of their cost on mortgage bonds; 3) pay 5% or less on their borrowings; 4) restrict dividends to 6%; 5) apply surplus to reduce rentals. Since 1927 eleven housing projects around New York City have been completed under the Board, representing 1,918 apartments costing $10,161.074. Four of them were co-operative undertakings by the Amalgamated Clothing...
Divorced. Darwin Pearl Kingsley Jr., son of the board chairman of New York Life Insurance Co. who last week lay ill; by Heywood Mason Butler Kingsley; in Minden, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
Doom? Eugenists view with alarm the world's future population. From England wrote Major Leonard Darwin, 82, eugenist son of Evolutionist Charles Darwin: "My firm conviction is that if widespread eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization...