Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week's $1,000,000 was in the same vein. New York University wishes a public health centre, to emulate Columbia University with its new (Harkness-bolstered) medical centre. And to Mr. Baker the faculty turned. Picking him was shrewd, for the professor of surgery at Bellevue Hospital, one of the units of the proposed centre, has long been Dr. George David Stewart. And Dr. Stewart has almost as long been Mr. Baker's doctor and friend. Hence sentiment made the ready Baker hand more ready, and a little insistent. The $1,000,000 was, he stipulated...
...Stewart, who had known that the endowment was forthcoming, announced last week that he would use it to pay professors and instructors of surgery for half time work, to increase New York University's faculty...
Reelected. John R. Yoorhis, 99, New York City Board of Elections president; to be Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society, New York City...
Resigned. Dr. Nathaniel Lord Britton, 70, founder in 1896 and only director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, to devote himself to private research in tropical flora. Gardener Britton had nursed a wooded waste to third place in botanical garden fame, to world-known horticultural and botanical exhibits. Exhibits number millions, attendance averages 50,000 on summer Sundays. Long an advocate of planting Japanese ginkgo trees, Gardener Britton is also co-author of a four-volume treatise on cacti...
Died. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hambleton, 31, Lindbergh-friend, Baltimore banker and vice president of Pan American Airways, with J. Von der Heyden, sales director of Consolidated Instrument Co. of New York, and Mrs. Von der Heyden; at Wilmington, N. C., when their plane crashed on a week-end flight. Both men were expert flyers. Earlier last week Flyer Von der Heyden took New York Governor Roosevelt's wife on her first flight...