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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Alexander Smith Cochran, 53, of New York City, carpet tycoon, yachtman, onetime "richest bachelor," divorced husband of Ganna Walska (now Mrs. Harold F. McCormick); at Saranac Lake, N...
Died. William A. ("Bill") McCabe. 69, Police Commissioner of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. confidential adviser of James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, at Poughkeepsie...
University of Rochester (Rochester, N. Y.) Herbert Edwin Hawkes, university dean (Columbia) LL.D. Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner LL.D. Lewis Hill Weed, medical school dean (Johns Hopkins) D.Sc...
...world's four worst heavier-than-air accidents: December 1924, Imperial Airways plane, at Croydon, eight killed; January 1929, U. S. Army plane at Royalton, Pa., seven killed; December 1928, at Rio de Janiero, 14 killed; March 1929, Colonial Airways, sightseeing plane, at Newark, N. J., 14 killed...
Robert Tyre Jones Jr., Atlanta lawyer, U. S. amateur golf champion, went last week to Mamaroneck, N. Y., to compete in the U. S. open championship over the Winged Foot course. Said he: "It all depends on irons. If I don't get the confounded things to working this week there's no likelihood that I'll change my title now or any time in the near future." In two practice rounds he shot 69, 70. Par for Winged Foot...