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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another millionaire made his mark in aviation last week. Paul Wadsworth Chapman, Manhattan investment banker, had watched the profitable aviation promotion of Elisha Walker (Blair Co.), Charles Hayden and Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co.), Charles E. Mitchell and Gordon S. Rentschler (National City Bank, Manhattan). Jansen Noyes (Hemphill. Noyes & Co.). James C. Willson (Louisville), Thomas N. Dysart (Knight, Dysart & Gamble, St. Louis), Clement Melville Keys (Manhattan). He had watched recent mergers in the industry: Fokker and Western Air Express. Transcontinental Air Transport. Curtiss Corporations and Sikorsky. Keystone and Loening, Pratt and Whitney. Boeing and Niles, Bement and Pond...
...Pont had become, within the last year, large stockholders of U. S. Rubber. Equally well known was the fact that du Pont-Legate Henry Davis had recently been chosen a director. Accordingly, at the end of the week, President & Chairman Charles B. Seger resigned. To his office was elected F. B. Davis Jr., President of du Pont Viscoloid Co. The change meant that the du Fonts had full control; it presaged a close alliance between General Motors Corp. (25% du Pont) and U. S. Rubber, onetime "biggest" manufacturer of rubber products...
Engaged. Margaret Propert Farrand, daughter of President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; to Harry A. F. Eaton, World War veteran of Washington...
Appointed. Rt. Rev. Monsignor J. Francis O'Hern, Vicar General of the Diocese of Rochester, N. Y.; to be Bishop of Rochester, succeeding Bishop Thomas F. Hickey...
Docket number 123 is the Edward Warren Club (Elliott, Jenkins) versus the Reading Club (Exum, Myers). The meeting will be at 64 Oxford Street with W. F. Whitman 3L as chief justice...