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...Hoover with congressional authority last week appointed two commissions, one formal and white, one informal and black. White: Chairman, William Cameron Forbes, onetime Governor General of the Philippines; Henry Prather Fletcher, one-time Ambassador to Italy; Elie Vezina of Rhode Island, Papally beknighted newsman; James Kerney, editor of the Trenton (N. J.) Times; William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Black: Mr. Hoover appointed an informal, independent commission headed by Robert Russa Moton, President of Tuskegee Institute, to make an exhaustive survey of Haitian education...
Conceived as a "Cathedral of the Air" by the Rev. Gill Robb Wilson of Trenton, N. J., onetime National Chaplain of the American Legion, the chapel's solemn purpose is to memorialize the U. S. military dead, particularly those of the aviation service. Under the auspices of the New Jersey American Legion, famed Philadelphia Architect Paul Phillipe Cret has prepared plans for a sturdy Norman-Gothic edifice with a steep-gabled carillon tower, suggesting the village churches of France. A minute side chapel, seating possibly a score, will have altar vessels of duralumin salvaged from the wreck of the Naval...
...economy there and later studied at the Harvard Law School, from 1903 to 1905. Harvard granted him a Master's degree in 1906. He was admitted to the New Jersey State bar in 1905 and to the United States Supreme Court in 1920. He acted as counsel for the Trenton Trust Company, the Trenton Banking Company, and the DuPont de Nemours Company...
...served as a director of several corporations among which are the Universal Paper Bag Company, the Union Mills Paper Company, the Trenton. Banking Company, and was a member of the New Jersey State Board of Control of Institutions and Agencies. He is a trustee of Rutgers University and the Trenton Free Public Library. In 1924 he became Attorney General for the State of New Jersey and still acts in that capacity...
...Manhattan last week it became known that Modernist Composer George Antheil and Writer John Erskine were planning to collaborate on an opera, the heroine to be Helen of Troy. Composer Antheil, a native of Trenton, N. J., began his musical career in Paris, returned to the U. S. in 1927, won notoriety with his Ballet Mécanique scored for ten pianos, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, bells, a mechanical piano, a sewing machine motor, and an airplane propeller (TIME, April 25. 1927). Writer Erskine became famed with his smart satire, The Private Life of Helen of Troy...