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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief decliners were from Virginia where Bishop James Cannon Jr. had again been cannonading against the Smith-Raskob leadership. Senator Carter Glass found an engagement in Baltimore on the night of the dinner. Senator Claude Swanson had to go to New Bern, N. C., that evening. They both said they would have otherwise attended the Shouse dinner...
...Edwards' Newsboy Sextet. That year, "incorrigible," "stupid," he quit school. Soon he was touring with a "gel," applauded by a few and egged by many as he hoofed and sang. As his voice grew deeper, his singing grew worse. After being laid off, in Durham. N. C., he fed chickens on a boxcar to get back to Manhattan. During the War he was Sailor Winchell...
...long green table in the blinding rays of sunlamps and arc lights. Mr. Young, chairman and presiding genius of the conference, sat in the middle, on his right Emile Moreau, Governor of the Bank of France, on his left Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament and Boston Lawyer Thomas N. Perkins. On the green cloth in front of Chairman Young were two white blocks of foolscap, two and a half inches thick, copies in French and English of the famed agreement, neatly prepared by Sir Josiah Stamp, head of the British delegation, and a white meerschaum pipe, gift of John Pierpont...
Synchronously with the creation of these huge public benefactions, John D. Rockefeller has been building himself a huge private estate at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. And that too brought him into the news last week...
Died. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hambleton, 31, Lindbergh-friend, Baltimore banker and vice president of Pan American Airways, with J. Von der Heyden, sales director of Consolidated Instrument Co. of New York, and Mrs. Von der Heyden; at Wilmington, N. C., when their plane crashed on a week-end flight. Both men were expert flyers. Earlier last week Flyer Von der Heyden took New York Governor Roosevelt's wife on her first flight...