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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Chellis A. Austin, 53, president of Equitable Trust Co. (Manhattan); at Montclair, N. J.; of heart disease...
Died. Professor Fred Neher, 62, for 38 years a Princeton faculty member; at Princeton, N. J.; after a three-week illness. Wartime consultant of U. S. Chemical Warfare Service of the Bureau of Mines, he devised antidotes for poison gases...
Died. Richard Porter Ashe, 68, lawyer, sportsman, of the family for which Asheville, N. C., was named, nephew of famed Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, first husband of famed Aimee Crocker (now Princess Galitzine), owner of famed Racehorse Geraldine (46 sec. half mile, Chicago, 1891), discoverer of Boxer Jim Corbett, oldtime member of California's Bohemian Club; at San Francisco; of apoplexy...
...session of the State Legislature. Fundamentalists who resented the use of the word "Baptist" in describing Preacher Fosdick's church, Modernists who felt the same way for different reasons, irreverents who have called the new church "Socony" in deference to Mr. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., all took notice...
...née du Pont, gunpowder & chemical tycoon, who attended the convention as a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society, envisioned a great collateral use for these stupendous sums. Said he: let the insurance companies each year contribute one-eighth of one cent of every dollar of their assets to an organization for research in their favorite thing: the prolongation of life. "The funds would finance the greatest organization the world has ever applied to a specific problem," observed Mr. du Pont. The funds would be $20,000,000 yearly, the equivalent of a half-billion-dollar endowment...