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Married. James Hazen Hyde, onetime (1899-1905) vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, son of the late Henry Baldwin Hyde, Equitable's founder and onetime president; and Countess Ella Matuschka (nee Walker) of Detroit; in Varsailles, France. Witnesses: Andre Tardieu, onetime (see p. 17) Prime Minister of France, President Jean de Castel-lane of the Paris Municipal Council, .Counselor Norman Armour of the U. S. Embassy...
Died. Agnes Dillon Randolph, 55, great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, sister of Hollins Nicholas Randolph (president of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association), founder of tuberculosis service organizations in Virginia and Texas; in Richmond...
With American Woolen's 1924 reversal came the story that stockholders were disgruntled with the rule of its president & founder, William B. Wood. That year he said he was in ill health, resigned from the presidency. A year later he resigned from the directorate. A year later he committed suicide...
...Awarding of the Nobel Prizes; at Stockholm, Sweden. Annual occasion: anniversary of the death in 1896 of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish founder of the $9,000,000 fund for international awards. 1930 recipients: Dr. Hans Fischer, in Chemistry; Sinclair (Babbitt) Lewis, in Literature; Dr. Karl Landsteiner, in Medicine ; Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, in Physics...
...young sons of rich men (TIME, Sept. 19, 1927). Last month he undertook a role apparently as strange as his others, but easily explainable. The role: aviation colyumist for the Newark Free Press. The explanation: Roger Kahn is an able flyer. And Publisher John Barry Ryan Jr., joint founder of the new Free Press (TIME, July 14) is his brother-in-law, husband of the former Margaret Dorothy Kahn...