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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discontinued. The famed architectural firm of Carrere & Hastings (Manhattan), builders of New York Public Library, Arlington Memorial Amphitheatre to the Unknown Soldier. Reason: the death of Partner Thomas Hastings (TIME, Nov. 4). Partner John Merven Carrere died in 1911.
Elected. Philip R. Clarke, of Chicago; to be president of Central Trust Co. of Illinois. Joseph Edward Otis, retiring president, will become board chairman. Retiring Board Chairman Charles Gates Dawes will be Honorary Chairman.
Promoted. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, polar explorer; to the rank of Rear Admiral, U. S. N., retired; by act of Congress.
Birthday. Paul Allman Siple of Erie, Pa., Sea Scout (branch of Boy Scouts of America), youngest member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition; in Little America. Age: 21. National Scout Commissioner Daniel Carter ("Duffle Bag") Beard, felicitated him over the radio, announced his promotion to grade of mate of the Sea...
Birthday. Albert Abraham Michelson, measurer of light, first U. S. Nobel Prizeman in science (physics, 1907), whose optical studies gave Albert Einstein a main clue to the Relativity Theory.* Age 77. He marked the week by resigning as head of the physics department at the University of Chicago because of...