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...Roy Scott Anderson, 46, the U. S. citizen who, singlehanded, effected the release of all the foreign prisoners in the Lincheng bandit episode (TIME, May 19, 1923, et seq.), died in Peking from pneumonia...
...Equitable Building, largest skyscraper in Manhattan, which covers almost an acre of ground, stands 38 stories high, was reported sold last week for $38,500,000 to a group including Le Roy W. Baldwin, August Heckscher and other directors of the Empire Trust Co. The price is the greatest ever set in a Manhattan realty transaction...
...ROY GRIFFITH...
...passing of Dr. Marion Le Roy Burton. President of the University of Michigan, is more than a tragedy. It is a loss that can only be estimated in light of the brilliant performances of his all too short life. In the end that very virtue which was the cause of his phenomenal rise from a newsboy in two streets of Minneapolis to President of three of our largest universities was the cause of his death. Even his tremendous athletic frame could not stand the strains he placed upon it. Work was his idol, his mettle, and finally his master...
...Roy Asa Haynes, Prohibition Commissioner, received a temperance medal bearing a temperance certificate signed by James Madison, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams in 1834. It was sent from Los Angeles by President Jackson's great-grandson, Andrew Jackson IV, who asked a job in the Prohibition Unit...