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Huge on the front page of the New York Evening Journal (Hearst), last week, was a faithful photograph of John Davison Rockefeller. Big was the caption above: 88TH BIRTHDAY PARTY, and below: "John D. Rockefeller is celebrating his eighty-eighth birthday a day ahead of time." The Journal, unlike Mr. Rockefeller, was a year behind time. As every one knows, Mr. Rockefeller was 89 on July 8. But the New York Sun jumped the gun a year and said that Mr. Rockefeller...
Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr., 19, junior at Princeton, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller, is spending his summer Dick" on the Randall, O-T-O near dude ranch of Livingston, Mont. "Pretty One afternoon last week, a non-dude native remarked: "These Easterners don't know nothing about ridin'." Young Dodge, piqued, boarded a wild steer, rode him without falling off, conquered him. Later, he performed creditably in a rodeo...
...John Davison Rockefeller 3rd, 22, has a summer job as assistant in the information bureau of the League of Nations at Geneva, Switzerland. Duties: to answer questions of U. S. tourists. Salary: about $40 a week. Last summer the job was held by William Curtis Bok, grandson of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Grandson Rockefeller will be a senior at Princeton University, in the autumn...
William E. Borah Theodore Elijah Burton William M. Butler Joseph G. Cannon-Arthur Capper Calvin Coolidge James C. Couzens Albert B. Cummins-Charles Curtis Dwight F. Davis James J. Davis F. Trubee Davison Charles Gates Dawes Chauncey M. Depew-Frederick H. Gillett Warren G. Harding-Roy Asa Haynes Will H. Hays Myron T. Herrick Herbert Hoover Alanson B. Houghton Charles Evans Hughes Frank B. Kellogg Robert M. La Follette-Henry Cabot Lodge-Nicholas Longworth Frank O. Lowden Ruth Hanna McCormick Andrew W. Mellon Dwight Whitney Morrow Harry S. New Hiram Johnson Gifford Pinchot Elihu Root William Howard Taft Andrew Volstead...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr., nursing a strained and stiffened right arm, learned that he had become the heaviest taxpayer in the U. S. on suburban real estate. His grounds at Tarrytown, North Tarrytown, Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant Townships, N. Y., were assessed at $5,588,050, calling for annual taxes of approximately $137,000. It was in his private gymnasium at Tarrytown that Mr. Rockefeller strained his right arm. He was playing volley ball against his 16-year-old son, Winthrop...