Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born. To Mr. & Mrs. John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams (she is the onetime Princess Zenaida Mihailovna Cantacuzene, great-granddaughter of Ulysses Simpson Grant); twin girls; at London.
Awarded. To Henry Waters Taft, brother of Chief Justice William Howard Taft; the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun; at a dinner of the Japan Society (Manhattan) of which he had been President seven years.
Elected. Samuel Insull Jr., son of Public Utilitarian Samuel Insull; to be vice-chairman of Middle West Utilities Corp., of which his father is board chairman; in Chicago.
Bankrupt. The Provincetown Players, discoverers in 1916 of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, when they gave his Bound East for Cardiff in a shack on a wharf in Provincetown, Mass. This winter they moved up from their small Greenwich Village theatre to Broadway. Subscribers' pledges of some $60,000...
Died. Dr. James Harris Rogers, 79, inventor of radio & telegraphic appliances; at Hyattsville, Md.; of heart disease. During the War he contrived a device for undersea radio communication; on the Western Front he established a radio station to intercept German army communications.