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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fort Jay. Ceded to the U. S. in 1800, it was once a prime factor in Manhattan's defense. Iron cannon balls fired from it could repulse enemy ships riding up the harbor under full sail. Time brought changes in defense methods, supplied mines, air corps, long-range coast artillery out at Sandy Hook, left Fort Jay a quaint military relic with restful officers' homes, trim lawns, untrafficked roads, under the towered shadow of lower Manhattan...
...many an aviation expert, to Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. LaGuardia, Governor's Island long ago appeared the logical place for a handy city air terminal. It was flat. It was five minutes sail to the Battery. The U. S. no longer needed it for defense purposes. Yet the Army, with a handful of soldiers and a Major-General commanding the Second Corps Area, clung obstinately to its convenient garden spot...
Happy was Henry Sherwin Rupp, 19-year-old son of a Long Beach, Cal., businessman when his appointment as a midshipman to the U. S. Naval Academy came through last spring. Happier still was he when he arrived at Annapolis last week to take his examinations. The mental ex- aminations were stimulating. He passed them handily. Physically he was found whole and sound?except that when a bundle of many-hued yarns was set before him, he picked yellow for green, green for blue, blue for purple. The Navy wants men who can recognize colors. The Navy rejected Candidate Rupp...
Sued for Annulment. Thomas M. Gorman, 27, Long Island real estate agent, husband of Mrs. Natalie Guggenheim Gorman, 18; by Edmond A. Guggenheim (her father), copper tycoon, who separated the couple after they married secretly (TIME, April...
With these words and a few more President Hoover last week started the Federal Farm Board off on its long task of jacking husbandry up out of its economic bog. The President met the Board for an hour in the Cabinet Room. One place on the Board remained vacant: A member to represent Wheat, whom President Hoover had not yet been able to find. Two last-minute Board appointees: William Frank Schilling of Northfield, Minn, to represent Dairy Interests; Charles S. Wilson of Hall, N. Y. to represent truck-gardeners...