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Other notables receiving degrees were Lewis William Douglas, director of the federal budget; Wilbur Lucius Cross, Governor of Connecticut; Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of Riverside Church, New York City; Louis Edward Kirstein, Boston philanthropist; Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory; George David Birkhoff '05, Perkins Professor of Mathematics; Philip Hale, dramatic critic of the Boston Herald; Francis Welles Hunnewell '02, secretary to the Harvard Corporation; Joseph Rochomont Hamlen, president of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
Died. James Loeb, 65, banker and philanthropist, son of the founder of Manhattan's famed Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; of pneumonia; in Murnau, Germany. After retiring from partnership in his father's firm in 1901, he went abroad to live, devoted his wealth to literature and music. Best known Loeb benefactions: Manhattan's Institute of Musical Art, the Loeb Classical Library, the Psychiatric Experimental Institute in Munich...
...Greco) The Assumption of the Virgin from Chicago's own Art Institute; Frans Hals's The Merry Lute Player from Mrs. John R. Thompson & John R. Thompson Jr. (Chicago); Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez' Isabella, First Queen of Philip IV of Spain from Philanthropist Max Epstein of Chicago; Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn's Aristotle with the Bust of Homer from Duveen Bros.; Gustave Courbet's La Toilette de, la Mariée from Smith College: Whistler's Portrait of My Mother; Auguste Renoir's The Canoeists' Breakfast from Phillips Memorial Gallery...
...weeks ago succeeded the closed Guardian and First National Banks. Others: Donaldson Brown, vice president of General Motors; Henry Edward Bodman, Detroit lawyer; John Battice Ford Jr. (no kin of Henry), vice president of Michigan Alkali Co.; James Inglis, chairman of American Blower Corp.; Tracy W. McGregor, Detroit philanthropist; James Thayer McMillan, president of Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., vice president of the Detroit Free Press; Peter J. Monaghan, Detroit lawyer; James Stansbury Holden, president of the Detroit Real Estate Board; Stanley Reed, Washington lawyer; Robert Perry Shorts of Saginaw, Mich. Not counting Messrs. Chrysler, Sloan and Brown (who have offices...
...former Marion Spore of Bay City, Mich., redhaired, fortyish Mrs. Bush (sister of Naval Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam) has been a practicing dentist and a practical philanthropist, known in the penny press as "The Angel of the Bowery...