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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides these there were three new, surprise donations, for which Daniel Guggenheim gave yet another $500,000 last week: 1) $250,000 to the City of Akron (if the city raises a like amount) for an Airship Institute, to study lighter-than-air problems under supervision of the California Institute of Technology; 2) $140,000 for a Chair of Aeronautics in the Library of Congress; 3) the balance to some southern university for an aeronautical school. Which southern university will get the money depends upon the proved enterprise of its faculty...
...died "with their boots on" (by violence). Although 32 of the bodies were removed to the town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still lie under Boot Hill sod. On this traditional spot the "Last Roundup" laid the cornerstone of a new city hall. Then a statue was unveiled of a cowboy, appropriately drawing his six-shooter, said the inscription: "On the ashes of my campfire this city is built." The figure was carved by O. H. Simpson, onetime pioneer dentist...
...Installation of Sir William Waterlow, new Lord Mayor of London...
...10?Opening of Hawaiian Airways, Ltd., new inter-island air service...
East: Columbia v, Pennsylvania at New York; Dartmouth v. Cornell at Hanover; Georgetown v. West Virginia at Washington; Harvard v. Holy Cross at Cambridge; N. Y. U. v. Missouri at New York; Syracuse v. Colgate at Syracuse; Army v. Dickinson at West Point; Navy v. Wake Forest at Annapolis; Williams v. Amherst at Williamstown; Yale v. Princeton at New Haven...