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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland: Edward Gignoux '37, chairman; Louis LeF. Sutro '38; Gardner N. Stratton '39; Thomas J. Darcey, Jr. '37; Mario C. Galassi '38, and George F. Halla...
Died. Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo, 79, U.S.N. retired, Wartime Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Fleet; of heart disease; at the Portsmouth, N. H. home...
Eight years ago a boy named Brevoort Hood was expelled by Tabor Academy for smoking within the town limits of Marion, Mass. His father, Charles C. Hood of Ridgewood, N. J. not only denied that Brevoort had smoked but, having paid $1,200 for his son's tuition that year, he felt that since the boy was sent home in March he should get some money back. Tabor Academy explained that Father Hood had agreed to forfeit whatever money he had paid Tabor in the event his son should for any reason "sever his connection" with the school before...
...Stuff. The possibilities of gas as a military weapon were thought of long before the World War. During the U. S. Civil War, Brigadier General W. N. Pendleton of the Confederate Army wrote to an ordnance officer asking whether "stink shells" which he had seen mentioned in a newspaper could not be used in 12-pounder howitzers and whether "the explosion can be combined with suffocating effect of certain offensive gases." The stink shells were not tried. At The Hague Conference of 1899 an agreement banning the use of gas projectiles was signed by 24 nations including Germany. After...
...Barton, Durstine & Osborn won two firsts, one honorable mention, and B. B. D. & O.'s president, Roy S. Durstine, received first radio medal. Young & Rubicam scored one first, five honorable mentions and second radio medal. Newell-Emmett, Blackett-Sample, Hummert, and G. Lynn Sumner each won a first. N. W. Ayer had three honorable mentions. McCann-Erickson had two honorable mentions, Lennen & Mitchell, Fuller & Smith & Ross, Rickard & Co. and Geyer, Cornell & Newell, Inc. one each. W. J. Cameron of the Ford program won third radio medal...