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...Often erroneously referred to as the first Negro in a French Cabinet,* M. Diagne served as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1931, helped mobilize Colonial troops during the War. Died. William Ellis Corey, 68, oldtime protege of Andrew Carnegie, onetime president of U. S. Steel; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. His career closely followed that of Charles Michael Schwab. In 1897 he succeeded Mr. Schwab as superintendent of Homestead Steel Works. In 1901 when Mr. Schwab left the presidency of Carnegie Steel Co. to become U. S. Steel's first president, Mr. Corey followed him as head...
...president, Michelet arranged a memorial service for the nine Dartmouth men killed in their sleep by carbon monoxide (TIME, March 5). But while other students were filing to the chapel, he was on his way to Dick Hall's House infirmary with a heavy cold. The cold became pneumonia. Empyema developed, clogging his lungs. In two weeks students marched once more to Rollins Chapel, for two hours filed past the coffin where Bob Michelet lay beneath the Dartmouth seal...
Died. Col. William Thaw II, 40, pioneer U. S. aviator who once flew under the four bridges which spanned New York City's East River, Wartime commander of the Lafayette Escadrille; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh...
Died. John James Elaine, 58, thrice Governor of Wisconsin, U. S. Senator (1927-33); of pneumonia; in Boscobel, Wis. A Progressive Republican pupil of the late Robert Marion La Follette, John Elaine supported the Presidential campaigns of Woodrow Wilson (1912), Senator La Follette (1924). Alfred Emanuel Smith (1928), Franklin Delano Roosevelt. President Roosevelt appointed him to the board of Reconstruction Finance Corp., formation of which he had opposed under President Hoover...
Died. Theodore Douglas Robinson, 50, nephew of President Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Coolidge; of pneumonia; in Warren...