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...IRA S. HURT...
...only previous recipients of the Priestley Medal have been the late President Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins and the late Provost Edgar Fahs Smith of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Garvan could not travel to Minneapolis from Manhattan because "three years ago I broke down. Some say that breakdown was the result of my endeavors to establish independent and sufficient chemical education, chemical research and chemical industries in America. . . ." This apology and the rest of Mr. Garvan's "random thoughts of a lay chemist," Professor Julius Oscar Stieglitz of the University of Chicago read for absent Mr. Garvan...
...Another famed Negro to play the Moor was Ira Aldridge in the early half of the 19th Century. To endow an Aldridge memorial chair in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. Negroes recentlv subscribed...
United Aircraft & Transport immediately requested the Army Air Corps to test continuous refueling flights over the transcontinental air mail route. The Corps complied, appointed Captain Ira Eaker (Question Mark refueling flight chief) and First Lieut. B. S. Thompson as pilots...
...Hearst group had tickets for the whole voyage. Other trippers included Joachim Rickard, Massachusetts-born Spanish correspondent, who was obliged to fight Hearst opposition to his passage; Lieutenant Jack C. Richardson, U. S. Navy observer; William B. Leeds, socialite playboy. Lieut.-Col. Nelson Morris, nephew of Ira Nelson Morris (Chicago meatpacker and onetime Minister to Sweden), had a ticket as far as Friedrichshafen...