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James Bryant Conant '13, Sheldon Emery professor of Organic Chemistry at Harvard, will receive the Chandler Medal of the American Chemical Society, it was announced recently by the Chairman of the Committee of the Chandler Lectureship, R. H. McKee, professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. The medal, which will be presented on Friday, February 5 to Professor Conant, is awarded this year "to one of the most brilliant organic chemists this country has produced," according to Professor McKee...
This week slim little James John Walker officially ceased to be Mayor of the City of New York. Into his job with its full power of appointment and dismissal stepped Joseph Vincent McKee, president of the Board of Aldermen. Reason: Under the city charter a mayor who absents himself for more than 30 days loses his office. Mayor Walker sailed for Europe Aug. 3. If Mayor McKee were not a reliable Tammany Democrat, he could turn the Municipal government topsy-turvy before Mr. Walker returns late this month, gets back the job to which he was elected...
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...stormy afternoon last week pulled the Empire Builder, Great Northern Railway's crack Seattle-to-Chicago limited train. It flashed across the State line, roared through Moorhead, Minn., headed for St. Paul across the prairie at 50 m.p.h. At the throttle was Engineer B. E. McKee. Behind him in the string of eleven Pullmans were 119 passengers, reading, napping, playing bridge. Beyond Moorhead, Engineer McKee eyed the sky apprehensively. It was turning black, blacker. It was shot through with greenish-yellow light. Wind clouds bellied down to earth. Without hearing its far-off rumble, he knew a tornado...
Rescuers pried their way into the over-toppled steel cars, released the bruised and bloodied passengers. One man was killed, a score injured. Unhurt in his cab was Engineer McKee whose 77-ton locomotive alone had held the rails...