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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Awarded. To Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime (1925-28) Secretary of State; an honorary D.C.L. (Doctor of Civil Law) ; at Oxford University. Awarded. To Dr. Hugo Eckener, Commander of the Graf Zeppelin; the Ntional Geographic Society's gold medal. He said he would travel to the U. S. in March to get it. Elected. Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime (1928) Democratic Candidate for President; to be Board Chairman of County Trust Co. (Manhattan), a post created following the suicide of his longtime friend James J. Riordan (TIME, Nov. 18) Elected. Vice President George Willard Smith of New England Mutual Life Insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Salt Water reintroduces Frank Craven who has a gift for appearing nettled. His present opportunity is that of a landlubber whose plans to follow his ancestors on the high seas are thwarted by his wife's purchase of a ferry boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Before Dr. William Holland Wilmer became professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University, the University's President Frank Johnson Goodnow and Professor William Henry Welch both wrote: "It is generally conceded that Dr. Vilmer is the outstanding ophthalmologist in this country. . . . The faculty of John? Hopkins University considers that the opportunity of Dr. Wilmer becoming professor of ophthalmology in this institution constitutes an opportunity which is unlikely to be offered again within a genera-tion." At the dedication of the Wilmer Institute, Dr. Ernest Fuchs of Vienna (TIME. Nov. 25), under whom Dr. Wilmer studied 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Married. Frank Arthur Daniels, son of Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels; and a Miss Ruth Aunspaugh; at Raleigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...pioneer West; 3) strenuous stories of New York detectives such as Old Cap Collier and Old Sleuth, of cosmopolitan boys like Jack Harkaway, or rovers like Deadwood Dick; 4) respectable stories of righteous messenger boys, of Nick Carter, Diamond Dick, Jesse James and Yale's hyper-athlete Frank Merriwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dimeworthy Writers | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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