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...yard high hurdles--Tie for first between H. F. Kollmyer (Sm) and A. N. Davison. (McK). Time...
...Pittsburgh. He had been engaged to help defend minority Ford stockholders, other than Senator James Couzens, in the government's futile attempt to levy extra taxes on them. He had argued and lost the Interborough's 7¢ fare case in the Supreme Court. He was special attorney for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. in his successful ouster of Col. Robert Wright Stewart from the chairmanship of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. He had defended Francis G. Caffey, receiver for the New York & Cuba Steamship Co. Other clients whose cases he carried to the Supreme Court: Victor Talking Machine Co., Beechnut...
...Interior to create a national park on the tract. Congress marked off 704,000 acres as suitable, promised to take over administration when North Carolina and Tennessee had bought at least 427,000 acres and deeded it over to the U. S. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. promised to match, dollar for dollar, any amount up to $5,000,000 raised by the two states for land purchase. Last week Governor Henry Hollis Horton of Tennessee and Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina, journeyed to Washington, jointly presented Secretary of the Interior Wilbur with...
...Ormond Beach, Fla., last week, John Davison Rockefeller said his appreciation with flowers instead of dimes. The person thus honored was 22-year-old Pianist Helen Pugh who pleased him so greatly that he attended two of her concerts, at the second sat near the front to watch her hands. In Asheville, N. C., townsfolk read proudly of the distinction shown Pianist Pugh. Since the age of five she has been Asheville's pet prodigy...
...time be a chipped and crumbling mass. Reason: U. S. climate is inimical to fine sculptural stonework. Last week Sculptor George Grey Barnard had much to say about the decay of the medieval sculptures in the famed Cloisters established by himself in upper Manhattan and later purchased by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Most of this outdoor statuary has disintegrated more in its 20 years in the U. S. than in the preceding six centuries in Europe. Even the indoor pieces have been somewhat affected...