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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, 53, once beauteous Manhattan & Paris socialite, divorced wife of the late Wendell E. D. Stokes, widow of Col. Philip M. Lydig (Spanish war hero); of pernicious anaemia; in Manhattan. In 1921 she attracted widespread comment by announcing her engagement to Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, famed "Radical" cleric. Dr. Grant was forbidden to marry her by Bishop William Thomas Manning, because she was a divorcee. In 1924 she broke the engagement, "not wishing to ruin Dr. Grant's career." When he died within the year, he left her an estate of some...
Died. John Hemingway Duncan, 76, architect, designer of Grant's Tomb and Trenton (N. J.) Battle Monument; of heart disease; at Highland Beach...
...Rejected the King Amendment proposing to grant independence to the Philippines; rejected the Broussard Amendment providing an international conference to decide on Philippine independence...
Later in the week stockholders of Boston Edison sourly wished their company had never decided to split up its stock. The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities unexpectedly refused to grant the reduction in par value, publicly scolded the company for its rate charges, its dividend prices, and, most important to stockholders, for the price of its stock. While the Department was meeting the stock had tumbled from 375 to 360, then after the decision became known went to a low of 299, later rallied...
...architectural and town planning societies, Professor Hubbard has written several publications in his field. His latest volume, "Our Cities Today and Tomorrow," tells the results of a comprehensive field study of city planning and zoning progress in the United States. It was for this purpose that he received a grant from the Harvard Milton Fund for Research...