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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Gates Dawes went to Santo Domingo a month ago as a Chicago banker and onetime U. S. Budget Director to devise a budgetary and accounting system for that diminutive republic. When he returned last week to Manhattan aboard the S. S. San Lorenzo he was the newly-appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Retiring Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton, who also returned to the U. S. last week, predicted a "happy and successful term" for Ambassador Dawes...
...Indiana farmer's daughter, onetime (third) wife of the late John Batterson Stetson (hats), mother of U. S. Minister to Poland John Batterson Stetson Jr., relict of Portuguese Sculptor Alexis de Queiros Ribeiro de Sotto-Maior d'Almeida e Vasconcellos, Count Santa Eulalia; on her ranch near San Fernando, Calif...
Died. John Ennis, 87, of Stamford, Conn., oldtime contractor, Civil War veteran, walker, skater, swimmer, crack shot, boxer; of pneumonia; in Stamford. In 1910, he broke the transcontinental walking record, hiking from Coney Island to San Francisco in 80 days...
...Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, playwright, mystic, last week abandoned his intended tour of the U. S., sailed for home from San Francisco. Reason: disgust with
United Aircraft & Transport announced last week the acquisition of Stout Air Services Inc., since 1927 a passenger-carrier between Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago. The Stout line with Boeing Air Transport (San Francisco-Chicago) are to be the nucleus of a transcontinental system...