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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, N. Y., March 29--While Yale, Army, and Navy ran away with the honors, Harvard was hopelessly outclassed in the final matches of the Intercollegiate Fencing Tournament, completed here late tonight...
...Y. Times...
Elected. Lewis H. Brown, 35, of Pelham, N. Y., assistant to the president of Johns-Manville Corp.; to be president, succeeding the late Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles...
Died. Jacob ("Jake") Volk, 56, of Brooklyn, N. Y., potent razer, Russian-born butcher's son; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. Razer Volk began with a horse and wagon; ended with a swift demolishing squad. He razed more than 2,500 buildings, including Delmonico's famed restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream...
Died. Major General Daniel Appleton, 77. of North Andover, Mass., retired publisher (D. Appleton & Co. of Manhattan was founded by his grandfather Daniel Appleton in 1825); at a sanatorium in White Plains, N. Y., where he had been ill for four years...