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...Federal Director of Prohibition, was elected president of St. John's College at Annapolis, Md. Simultaneously Douglas Huntly Gordon, 31, was abruptly dismissed as the head of the third oldest college in the U. S. Appointed acting president until Mr. Woodcock takes office next autumn was Dr. Reginald Heber Ridgely, biology professor...
...Biggest Mormon-controlled sugar company is Utah-Idaho, headed by Heber Jedediah Grant, chief of the Twelve Apostles. Amalgamated, Mormon-managed, is part of American Beet Sugar Co., second largest beet sugar producer...
...seven holders, all of whom have played a notable part in the history of the Harvard Medical School. The first incumbent was Benjamin Waterhouse, 1782-1812, followed by James Jackson, 1812-1836, John Ware, 1836-1869, George C. Shattuck, 1859-1873. Francis Minot, 1873-1891, Reginald Heber Fritz, 1892-1908, and Henry A. Christian appointed...
...Canada was shocked when Lawyer Machray, enfeebled by long illness, arose in Winnipeg's Provincial Police Court, leaning heavily on his cane, to be charged with theft. His peculations from University funds were now estimated at $901,175. In addition he was charged with stealing $60,000 from Heber Archibald, his former law partner. (The firm had gone bankrupt.) Begging a summary trial, Lawyer Machray pleaded guilty. Magistrate R. M. Noble, recalling huskily that for 25 years he had been a friend of the accused, passed sentence: seven years in the penitentiary...
...Kennelly-Heaviside layer, radio's sounding board around the earth. -Dr. A. Meldon Skellet, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Electric Clocks, run by 60-cycles-per-second powerhouse current, are sufficiently accurate to operate astronomical telescopes. Dr. George Wilber Moffitt is using such a clock at Yerkes Observatory. Dr. Heber Doust Curtis will put one in at the Michigan Observatory...