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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please leave out a picture on the front cover of TIME soon and substitute therefor an APOLOGY to your readers for having disgraced that space in the issue of April 9 with a reproduction of a likeness of SINCLAIR-corruptionist De Luxe...
...magic carpet" was unrolled, upon which his friends came and laid presents. The old gentleman's name was then inscribed "leading all the rest" in a book of gold and he was saluted as the Abou Ben Adhem of New York City. The old gentleman was Robert Weeks de Forest, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of the Russell Sage Foundation, of the Welfare Council of New York City, of the American Federation of Arts, of the Survey Associates, of the National Housing Association, of the Charity Organization Society. The New York Times called him "Captain of Philanthropy...
Friends of Prohibition were perturbed by discovering that another new director of the A. A. P. A. is First Citizen de Forest's almost equally distinguished brother and law partner, Henry Wheeler de Forest, 72, who serves on the directorates of many a potent railroad and of such systems as Western Union and the American Express...
...Passed the delayed joint resolution giving a special gold medal to Colonel Lindbergh; after stormy argument, ordered a similar medal struck for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth; passed a bill awarding the Distinguished Flying Cross to the crew of the Bremen, to Commander de Pinedo of Italy and Lieutenant Costes and Lieut.-Commander Lebrix of France...
...Paris Litteraire de 1928," Professor Morize, Sever...