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Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin Jr. of Greenwich, Conn., eldest son and daughter-in-law of Col. B. B. McAlpin (hotels, law) of Manhattan; a son (first grandson), 7 Ibs. 9 oz. Name: B. B. McAlpin...
Married. Joseph Devoe Norton, Boston department store clerk, onetime crack amateur golfer (protege of Amateur Francis Ouimet); and Caroline Isabel Phelan of Boston, daughter of Banker James J. Phelan; in Newton, Mass. Banker Phelan did not fancy a son-in-law who made a career of golf. Golfer Norton stopped playing, went to work...
Died. Lord Younger, 77, of London, famed Tory Member of Parliament, financier (breweries, banks, railroads) ; of heart disease; in London. In 1919, with Andrew Bonar Law, he swung Conservative support to the Coalition party which elected Prime Minister Lloyd George. In 1922 he swung the Conservatives the other way, caused the Prime Minister's downfall. He was called "the man who pulls the strings which make the Ministers dance...
...small size his new schoolmates promptly stuffed him into an ash can. At a slightly more advanced age he got through Harvard-in two years, with Phi Beta Kappa, the John Harvard Scholarship and, on his diploma, summa cum laude. A little after that he passed from the Harvard Law School to the prominent Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins. With a teriffic capacity for work, he was a partner at 25. Now in his early forties, a thickset, rusty-haired gentleman, his capacity for work is undiminished...
Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School was reported Saturday to have been selected by President Hoover for an important place on the administration's law enforcement program. Dean Pound, who has been in Washington attending a meeting of the Bar Institute, had a half-hour conference with the President Saturday...