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Engaged. Janet Phillips, socially able eldest daughter of Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr., Oklahoma & Pennsylvania oil & gas oligarch, onetime (1923-1927) Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, and director of, among other companies, the Shell Union Oil Corp.; to Leander McCormick-Goodhart, U. S.-born, English-educated subject of H.M. King George V, now commercial secretary of the British Embassy at Washington...
Ships & Planes. At Seattle, Boeing airplanes are made; from Seattle, as from Pacific Coast ports as far south as Los Angeles, go McCormick P. A. B. ships to the Argentine & Brazil. Last week, Boeing planes were traveling on McCormick ships. The planes, it is planned, will fly from ships to distant inland towns of South America-carrying salesmen & goods...
...given its second presentation, in Minneapolis. There last week plans were made to make it a major event. Mayor George E. Leach was to attend. Composer Bimboni, turned conductor, was working with his orchestra, when word arrived that the American Opera Society of Chicago, of which Edith Rockefeller McCormick is ardent honorary president, had voted him the David Bispham Memorial Medal for distinguished service in the furtherance of American music, that he would be awarded it this week at the Minneapolis performance...
...will last indefinitely, longer than any paper substance except parchment. A year ago Adolph S. Ochs's New York Times, leader, in many aspects, of all the journals of the land, conceived the rag paper notion and prints a limited supply each day. (See p. 7.) The Patterson-McCormick Chicago Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," felt called upon to offer a similar service to millionaire subscribers and posterity...
Only 44 of the 10,000 essays were thought worthy of the whole jury's attention. Not one was deemed worthy of even a second prize $1,000). Of the $57,000 prize money (contributed by Cyrus H. McCormick, Edward Bok, Henry Morgenthau, Bernard M. Baruch et al.), only $2,000 was awarded-for 14 third prizes ($100 each) and 30 honorable mentions...