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...London, with the sale of $125,000 of patents for pneumatic hammers and drills, which he had tried in vain to sell in Chicago. His ability, he needed not to point out, had made him Wartime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, president of Emergency Fleet Corp., onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, president of the American Manufacturers' Export Association...
...Washington 25 to 7. South. Alabama kept its record clean by pushing through the Florida line and grabbing Halfback Red Bethea whenever he started to run. Alabama 20, Florida o. Vanderbilt completed only four passes against Georgia Tech, but one of them fell into the arms of fleet Harold ("Now-I") Askeu and decided things. 6 to 0. Unbeaten Georgia's touchdown in the third period matched the one New York University had made in the second. Then Vernon ("Catfish") Smith place-kicked the point that won an exciting game, 7 to 6. Georgia rates behind Alabama because Florida tied...
Retiring. Capt. Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, 61, commodore of the Cunard Fleet, captain of the Berengaria. When the Titanic sank in 1912, the Carpathia, of which he was then captain, received the SOS, rescued 706 survivors. For this he received a gold medal from Congress, a letter of thanks from President Taft...
...cruisers." Admiral Bristol is a seadog trained to do diplomatic tricks. Many a time has he maintained U. S. relations with foreign statesmen-as commander of the U. S. Navy base in Wartime England, as U. S. high commissioner in post-War Turkey, as chief of the Asiatic Fleet. He has not only been decorated by the Navy Department but commended by the State Department. Nevertheless he seemed last week to have been ruled by his Chief of Operations, Treaty-defending Admiral William Veazie Pratt. In the protestations of intended economy which went up with the program there were detected...
Honored. Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor, 66; with the John Fritz medal, top honor of the engineering profession; by the American Societies of Civil, Mining & Metallurgical, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. He built his country's War fleet (800 vessels in four years, a record...