Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racket across the courts after he took the final game from Dr. Prenn. . . . Hans Moldenhauer politely catching William Tatem Tilden's serve in his hand after an erring referee had called "out" to the previous Tilden service. . . . Patriotic Germans groaning loudly while Doubles-Partners Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn raced through three sets after dropping the first to the Moldenhauer-Prenn combination. . . . Bathers in a nearby lake wondering what the groaning was all about...
Elected. Linwood A. Miller, 44, first vice president of Willys-Overland Co., to be president, succeeding John North Willys, retired (TIME, July 22), who becomes board chairman...
Decorated. Kenesaw Mountain Landis, National Commissioner of Baseball; with the American Legion Distinguished Service Medal; in Chicago. General John Joseph Pershing and Admiral Robert Edward Coontz are the only other U. S. personages who have received the award...
Died. Nicholas John Sinnott, 59, of The Dalles, Ore., member of the U. S. Court of Claims; in Washington, D. C.; of heart failure...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Robert Ellis Jones, 71, of Manhattan, Canon Bursar of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, onetime (1897-1902) president of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y.; in Greenfield, Mass...