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...Died. Josiah Marvel, 64, leading attorney of Wilmington, Del, president of the American Bar Association, unsuccessful candidate last month for Democratic nomination for the Senate; suddenly, of heart failure, at his home in Greenville...
Announcement of the creation by Edward S. Harkness of a trust of $10,000,000 to be used "for charitable work in Great Britain" was made yesterday in London. The board of trustees, including Stanley Baldwin, former premier; John Buchan, novelist; and Sir Josiah Stamp, economist, will meet soon to determine the disposition of the money...
Delaware. Democrats at Dover by a vote of 115 to 95 nominated Thomas < Francis Bayard, Wet, for the Senate over Josiah Marvel, new president of the American Bar Association (TIME, Sept.1). Nominee Bayard's father, Thomas Francis Bayard Sr., his grandfather James Asheton Bayard Jr. and his greatgrand-father James Asheton Bayard Sr. all at different times represented Delaware in the Senate. So did Nominee Bayard (1923-29). His Republican opponent: Dry Senator Daniel O. Hastings. Delaware's single Democratic Congressional nominee: John P. Le Fevre...
Because Statesman & Scientist Benjamin Franklin won his fame in Phila- delphia, few but historians are prone to associate him with Boston. He was Boston-born Jan. 6, 1706, son of Josiah Franklin, a tallow chandler. Not until 1723, after he had written many an essay for his brother James's New England Courant, "first sensational newspaper in America," did Benjamin Franklin migrate to Philadelphia...
University of Pennsylvania, until 1923, called its chief executives Provosts. Until 1926 Josiah Harmar Penniman held the title of President & Provost. Last week the university again evoked the title of President, conferred it upon Thomas Sovereign Gates, class of 1893, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Morgan partner, Drexel partner, board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Standard Steel Works, Midvale Co. From now on Tycoon Gates will be in charge of Pennsylvania's worldly goods. Provost Penniman will continue to direct the institution's scholastic affairs...