Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day of the U. S. C. year. It was the Edward L. Doheny Junior Memorial Library, built with $1,100,000 donated from their many millions by Mr. & Mrs. Doheny Senior, Mrs. Leigh Battson, who is "Ned" Doheny's widow, and his children Lucy Estelle, Edward III, William Henry, Patrick Anson, Timothy Michael. After many a speech, U. S. C.'s President von Kleinsmid accepted the keys to the great bronze doors of the Library, largest yet to be cast in the West. Then the visitors inspected coppered, acoustic-plastered ceilings and rubber-tiled floors; the main...
...establish his prestige by hiring Steve Hannagan, able pressagent for the real estate ventures of Mr. Wood's friend Carl Fisher. By last week people had largely forgotten about last year's incident. More interesting was the fact that in the hull of Miss England III repowered for this year's races, were two 2,200-h. p. Rolls-Royce motors of the lightweight supercharged type which the British Air Ministry developed for its Schneider Cup-winning planes and which Sir Malcolm Campbell had in his Blue Bird automobile when he set the land speed record last...
...first lap, Miss England III, going 88.685 m. p. h., opened up over a mile lead. Miss America X, riding with her nose high in the rough water, gained half a mile in the second lap, then dropped back with her motors sputtering in the third. The fourth time around the course, Wood opened his throttles wide. Spectators in 30 airplanes over the race saw the two arrows of spray on the water come closer together. Then Wood shot ahead, in an uproar of cheers and boat whistles. Miss England III, her engines sputtering now, slowed down miserably...
Engaged. John Davison Rockefeller III, 26, grandson of John Davison Rockefeller and of the late U. S. Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island; and Blanchette Ferry Hooker, 22, Manhattan socialite, Vassar graduate...
Married. Cathleen Vanderbilt Gushing, 30, daughter of the late Reginald Vanderbilt, just divorced from Harry Cooke Gushing III, Manhattan broker; and Lawrence Wise Lowman, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System; in Hempstead...