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...reason for this apathetic response was that the President's appeal in January was soon blanketed by subsequent world headlines. Another reason was that the chairmanship of the Red Cross has been vacant since the death of Admiral Grayson. Last week President Roosevelt persuaded his grey and graceful Ambassador-at-Large, Norman Hezekiah Davis, to take the vacant post...
WASHINGTON--America's roving ambassador, Norman H. Davis, is forsaking the precarious footing of European political intrigue to become national chairman of the Red Cross, President Roosevelt announced today. Davis, 59, and reportedly in poor health, succeeds the late Admiral Cary T. Grayson...
...Thursday, Franklin Roosevelt, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Woodrow Wilson, motored to St. John's Church to attend funeral services for Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, onetime personal physician of Woodrow Wilson...
Died-Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, U.S.N., retired, 59; personal physician to Presidents Roosevelt I, Taft, Wilson; of anemia and respiratory infection; in Washington, D. C. A few hours before death came, Roosevelt II called at Admiral Grayson's home, was not allowed to see his good friend whom he named chairman of the American Red Cross in 1935-Died. Prince Nicholas of Greece, 66, uncle of Greece's King George II, father of Britain's Duchess of Kent; of a stroke; in Athens. In impoverished exile in Paris, 1924-35, he improved his time with...
Died. Colonel Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, 58, senior partner of G.M.-P. Murphy & Co., World War U. S. Red Cross Commissioner and lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F.; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1921 Grayson Murphy laid the foundation of his financial reputation by skillfully reorganizing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Last year a committee he headed salvaged for debenture holders what little there was to be salvaged from the Kreuger & Toll disaster. Little known outside of Wall Street, Grayson Murphy was not only a Republican who shot grouse in Scotland, but in 1928 a Liberal (meaning wet) Republican...