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Other Billings credits: raising the standards of U. S. medical education; preventing the sale of harmful and spurious medicines; establishment of the Sprague Institute (studies of tuberculosis, heredity in cancer and degenerative diseases); persuading John Davison Rockefeller to let the University of Chicago have a thoroughgoing medical centre. Towards this Dr. Billings and relatives gave $1,000,000.* Dr. Billings' share was $100,000. Had Dr. Billings lived until his 79th birthday next April, he then would have received an "Homage Book," tribute of his onetime pupils. That project now is abandoned. At the time of his death...
...treatment of the B. E. F. Such action would prove a distinct liability to him in November. Already eight States?Massa-chusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Illinois, Ohio, Texas and Mary-land?have passed resolutions condemning his use of the Army. When Assistant Secretary of War Davison tried to defend the President's action before the New York convention, he was booed and hissed ?but a censure resolution was beaten...
Died. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, 59, daughter of John Davison Rockefeller: of cancer of the liver; in Chicago...
...chief cause of the estrangement was also in devoted attendance?the plump little Swiss named Edwin D. Krenn with whom she had shared her last eleven years. Her brother John did not wait for the end. Itching painfully with an attack of shingles, he rejoined their father, John Davison Rockefeller, in the East. Long estranged too, and querulously jealous of his own health at 93, Father Rockefeller had not gone to see her at all. "He travels only between Florida and his home," John D. Jr. explained. In her last days, with the flesh fallen from her face...
Engaged. John Davison Rockefeller III, 26, grandson of John Davison Rockefeller and of the late U. S. Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island; and Blanchette Ferry Hooker, 22, Manhattan socialite, Vassar graduate...