Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico City, Lieut. Joaquin Garcia Bolanos of the Mexican air force died last week defending the good names of President Portes Gil and U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow. Returning home late at night, Lieutenant Bolanos saw some rough-looking men pasting up posters insulting to the President and the Ambassador. Lieutenant Bolanos went home and told his father. They returned to the scene, remonstrated. Aviator Bolanos rushed forward and attempted to wrest the offensive posters from one of the men. The billsticker drew a pistol and shot him dead. Despite the sacrifice of Aviator Bolanos, police next morning discovered...
...Engineer Johnson was ousted in 1933 by Governor Charles Wayland, Bryan, brother of the late William Jennings Bryan. *The Chapel of the Intercession, St. Vincent Ferrer, St. Bartholomew...
...late great John Wanamaker...
...haps did pioneer work in will-making when he started, several years before his death at 84, in 1922, making confident, frequent, undoubtedly sincere statements that he expected to live to be 100. When, at 82, he transferred business interests valued at $36,000,000 to his son, the late Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, he clearly did not do so "in contemplation of death." Thus ruled the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals last week...
Died. Sir Hildebrand Aubrey Harmsworth, 57, of London, British journalist (New Liberal Review, The Globe), brother of famed British journalists Lord Rothermere (Harold Sidney Harmsworth) and the late Lord Northcliffe (Alfred Charles William Harmsworth) ; in London...