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Ralph Austin Bard, partner in Bard & Co., President of C. I. C., was a three-letter man (Baseball, Basketball, Football) at Princeton (class of 1906). His club list includes Chicago, University, Attic, Industrial, Commonwealth, Exmoor, Monterey Peninsula Country (California), Mountain Lake (Florida). Other C. I. C. men include James B. Forgan Jr., of the famed Scotch banking family, vice president of Chicago's First National; Alfred Ernest Hamill, of Hathaway & Co. (commercial paper), also of Scotch-Irish banking ancestry; William H. Mitchell of Mitchell, Hutchins & Co. (brokers) ; Dudley Gates, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (insurance) ; Henry L. Hanley, executive...
Died. James ("Uncle Jim") McCoy, 80, of Pikeville, Ky., last of the McCoy clan, famed feudists against the Hatfields in the '705 and '80s; in Pikeville. The feud started over contested ownership of some sows and pigs, lasted until 25 years ago when a mountain preacher brought about a peace agreement. Last year Tennis Hatfield, grandson of onetime leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, offered his hand in friendship to James McCoy, and the two walked arm and arm down the road...
Nineteen guests last week went off with President Hoover for a Friday-to-Tuesday outing at his Shenandoah National Park camp. Many of them went mountain-climbing. President Hoover kept behind six of them-members of the Federal Farm Board-to tell him what the Board had accomplished in its month-and-a-half existence...
...pointed out what seemed to him certain deficiencies and puerilities in the writings of the late famed Dr. Sun Yat sen, father of the Nationalist Government, sainted founder of the Party, who now reposes and is daily adored in a $5,000,000 marble tomb on the Purple Mountain (TIME, June...
Another name for Maristan Chapman is Mrs. John Stanton Chapman. She, 34 next month, surprises native Tennesseeans often, since she looks and dresses almost as would a male. Her previous book, The Happy Mountain, sold 80,000 copies, was Literary Guilded...