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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yard run; M. H. Gutteridge, C. N. P. Hollowell...
...Arthur P. Davis, Oakland, Calif., consulting engineer (he built famed Roosevelt Dam) for irrigation projects in Soviet Central Asia...
When, last January, the U. S. Shipping Board announced bids for ships of the United States and the American Merchant Lines, highest bidder was Paul Wadsworth Chapman, who is head of P. W. Chapman. Inc., of Chicago and Manhattan and whom anyone but a newsman can interview at any time. After a wrangle with die-hard government-owning Senators, the Chapman bid was accepted. Last week the Shipping Board opened bids on ships of the American Diamond and the America France Lines, which operate freighters between U. S. and French, Dutch and Belgian ports. Again Bidder Chapman was high...
Ezra Cornell, grandson of University Founder Ezra Cornell (see p. 51) in San Rafael, Cal., last week, drove a golf ball, killed a cow, claimed a "birdie." Other reported golf incidents: in Warren, Ohio, Dr. E. D. Hoover holed in one on the third (195 yd.), his co-golfer George Jones followed him to the tee, holed in one, too; in Los Angeles, Francis Stevens Jr., defeated his father in the semi-finals of the State championship, thereby winning from father a seat in the Stock Exchange and permission to marry. Golfer Stevens Jr. did not, however, win the State...
...come together at Mrs. Rodney's dinner-party at 7:45 p. m. Another author might have attended the party, woven a plot. But Author Rea stops her character-sketching at precisely 7:35 p. m. leaving her six Mrs. Greenes- all products of English homes, schools, marriages, incomes, social sets-just as she found them, separate beings related to one another only by name and background. Author Rea writes wisely but not well...