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Chicago's Press ignored the incident, and four days later a lot of the same schoolchildren were in another throng that trooped to the lakefront for a party at which Banker Dawes's sister-in-law officiated. Mrs. Rufus Cutler Dawes broke a bottle of milk over the Magic Mountain on the Enchanted Island for children, formally opening this section of Chicago's 1933 World's Fair...
...Franklin Roosevelt flew to Chicago to accept the Presidential nomination he promised Mayor Cermak, since murdered, to be on hand for the opening of Chicago's Century of Progress. Last week Rufus Cutler Dawes, Fair president, accompanied by Col. Albert Arnold Sprague and onetime Postmaster General Harry Stewart New, marched into the White House, asked the President if he could officiate June 1. The President was sorry but that day he would be handing out diplomas at Annapolis. How about May 27? "That's bully!" declared President Roosevelt. For the opening the President will push a button connected...
...Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married. Margaret Dawes. 24, daughter of Utilities Man Rufus Cutler Dawes, president of Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition; and one Beverly Jefferson, 28; in Chicago. Married, Sarah Schuyler Butler, thirtyish, onetime vice chairman of New York's Republican State Committee, only child of Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler; and Captain Neville Lawrence, London...
Chicago's Century of Progress could have had the races in consideration of $12.500, Cleveland's yearly ''sanction fee'' to the National Aeronautic Association. But Chicago preferred an arrangement announced last week. Century of Progress' President Rufus Cutler Dawes made known that Chicago will hold International Air Races Sept. 1-4. LT. S. and foreign pilots will vie for "rich cash prizes'' at Curtiss-Reynolds field, scene of the 1930 national meet...
...night down the street with $50,000, a policewoman set out from the Patten house at the specified time disguised as Mrs. Patten, carrying a dummy packet and a revolver. Detectives caught one Axel Peterson, 52, onetime well-to-do landscape gardener employed by Charles Gates Dawes, Chicago Utilitarian Rufus Cutler Dawes and Northwestern University...