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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gregory L. Smith for 54 years graced the Alabama Bar and for over 40 years was recognized as not only the leader of the Bar in his own State, but was generally regarded throughout the South as one of the most outstanding lawyers of the time. No abler lawyer or nobler man ever lived than Mr. Gregory L. Smith. . . . I was his secretary for many years...
Monster Seaplane. To the Glenn L. Martin Co. went a Navy contract for the largest, most powerful, fastest flying boat ever developed. Specifications: three Pratt & Whitney motors producing 1,725 h. p. Top speed, 140 m. p. h. Cruising radius, 2,000 miles. Crew, five men. Cost, $150,000. Construction time, one year. This all-metal seaplane will serve the Navy as a "fighting patrol...
Died. Mrs. William Frederick Nast, 85, mother of Publisher Condé Nast (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden); at her son's home in Port Washington, L...
Early in the week the following extraordinary statement appeared in L'lntransigeant, powerful popular daily...
Interesting statistics on the overclothing of men were produced last week by Dr. Eugene L. Fisk of the Life Extension Institute in Manhattan. In the interests of science Dr. Fisk removed all the clothing from a dozen men and women, carefully weighed the respective garments, found that the average woman wore 2½ Ib. of clothing, the average man 8½. Itemizing the costume of a young woman and a man, apparently conservative, picked at random, he discovered...