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...Robert Low Bacon, incumbent. Congressman Bacon, 48, onetime Harvard athlete son of rich, famed Robert Bacon, was once designated by Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as "the wholesome, effective type of future American." Candidate Whitney, twice married, is a grandson of William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland, great-grandson of Ohio's Senator Henry B. Payne...
Died. Very Rev. John Patrick McNichols, S. J., 57, president of the University of Detroit; of pleurisy; in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Died. General Jose Francisco Uriburu, 64, onetime (1930-32) Provisional President of the Argentine Republic; of an operation for stomach ulcers; in Paris. Nephew and great-grandson of Argentine heroes, he was a retired lieutenant-general in 1930, emerged at the head of the cadets who seized the abandoned government from President Hypolito Irigoyen. In 18 months of one-man government, President Uriburu turned Argentina's adverse trade balance into a favorable balance...
Died, Lord William Henry John North, 95, foxhunter. oldest British peer, great-grandson of George Ill's Prime Minister during the American Revolution; of old age; in his home, Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, England. Last surviving godchild of Queen Adelaide, consort to William IV, Lord North branched from the same stem as Theodore Roosevelt, who once, on a ranch in North Dakota, rescued Lord North's son when his horse fell into a gully...
...Great-grandson of Fur Dealer John Jacob Astor, the original founder of the Astor fortune. As a young man he was a member of the New York State legislature (1877-81). Afterward he served as U. S. Minister to Italy for three years, published two romances, Valentine, Sjorza. In 1899 he became a naturalized British citizen. He was created a peer in 1916, a viscount...
...since 1915 and dean of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, presiding justice in the trial of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for conspiracy in the Teapot Dome case (TIME. April 15, 1929); of acute indigestion and dilation of the heart; in Washington. British-born, he was a great-grandson of Actress Sarah Siddons, had been urged in his youth to go on the stage...