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...Glen Cove, L. I., Mrs. Henry Pomeroy Davison, American Red Cross central committee member, widow of the late great banker, mother of the Assistant Secretary of War and of a Morgan junior partner, made an exemplary gesture against infantile paralysis' second worst ravage...
Like many another institution, the North Country Community Hospital at Glen Cove thought it could not afford a Drinker Respirator.* Mrs. Davison gave a lesson in how to get one. She solicited her neighbors, quickly collected the $2,000 a Drinker Respirator costs...
...chairman of the Republican National Committee, fuss-budgety little Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio went through last year's Congressional campaign assuring voters that the Depression was worldwide, that President Hoover was not to blame. Many a voter did not believe him, helped to reduce to paper-thinness the Republican majority in Congress. Since then Mr. Fess has had little to say about economic conditions...
Early in his career Flagler was a partner of John Davison Rockefeller. More than that they were close friends, worked in the same room, lived only a little distance from each other. Rockefeller called Flagler's friendship "valuable above all other possessions," and credited him with the scheme of controlling the oil supply of the country. "I wish I had had the brains to think of it," Mr. Rockefeller once said on a witness stand...
Largest, most pretentious of Manhattan's projected business-&-pleasure domes will be Metropolitan Square ("Radio City"), planned by John Davison Rockefeller Jr., National Broadcasting Co., Radio Corp. of America and Radio-Keith-Orpheum (TIME, May 18 et ante). Chastely splendorous, it will occupy most of three midtown blocks which by last week had been divested of their last tenants-lean alley-cats and stubborn bartenders-and reduced to a great expanse of rock and rubble. Excavation was begun for the first building, an enormous "International Music Hall" which will cost $7,000,000 World's largest in capacity...