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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon after the authority spoke, the Vought aircraft factory in Long Island City, N. Y., was roaring and rattling by day and night to produce Vought Corsair bombing planes for the Mexican federals. How many, Planebuilder Chance Vought refused to admit, on the grounds that it was "military information...
...Women. "Why," she asks, "do women think they must wash on Mondays? In the same way why are people prejudiced against the equality of women in the church since they have it in the state?" Better than anything else, though she once was a golf enthusiast at Englewood, N. ]., she loves motoring. To many a church meeting she drives with cautious but considerable speed in her Franklin automobile. Miss Margaret Hodge has the patrician quietude often associated with the aristocracy of her native city, Philadelphia. She, too, drives, but, instead of a Franklin, she steers a Ford...
...private virtues are inseparable from the man's sterling Catholicity." The formal reason for the award was Mr. Smith's having achieved "such discinction in his field of special endeavor as to reflect glory upon the Catholic faith." Actress Margaret Anglin received the medal for 1927; Edward N. Hurley for 1926. Other Laetare medallists: Patrick V. Hickey, founder of Catholic Review (1888); Theatrical Manager Augustin Daly (1894); Orator William Bourke Cockran (1901); Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte (1903); Diplomat Maurice Francis Egan (1910); Essayist Agnes Repplier (1911); Chief Justice Edward Douglas White (1914); Admiral William Shepherd Benson...
Elected. Harry A. Cronk of White Plains, N. Y., longtime Borden employe; to be president of Borden Farm Products Co., Inc. (world's largest milk producers...
Died. Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles, 65, of Bronxville, N. Y., president of the Johns-Manville Corp., onetime president of Montgomery Ward & Co., onetime bicycle enthusiast & manufacturer, native of Jersey City, N. J.; of heart disease; in Del Monte...