Monday, Nov. 24, 1930
Married. Harriet Green Huntington, $10,000,000 heiress, granddaughter of the late Henry Edwards Huntington, California tycoon & book-collector; and one Albert Doerr Jr., onetime (while at Stanford University) ice-truck-driver, mining engineer; in Pasadena, Calif.
Married. Byron Patton Harrison Jr., son of Senator "Pat" Harrison of Mississippi; and Mary Louise Dorroh of University, Miss.; in Washington.
Married. Eppes Bartow Hawes, daughter of Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri (see p. 60); and Lewis Thompson Preston, Manhattan socialite; in Washington. A special train took the bridegroom from Manhattan to Washington; eight limousines decorated with his racing colors met him & his friends at the station. The special train later took bride, bridegroom and a jazzband to Manhattan, whence they sailed for a big-game-hunting honeymoon in Africa.
Divorced. Harold Smoot, son of U. S. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; by Mrs. Alice Nibley Smoot; in Salt Lake City. Grounds: mental cruelty.
Divorced. Alfred Carl Fuller of Hartford, Conn., president of Fuller Brush Co.; by Mrs. Evelyn W. Fuller; in Reno, Nev. Charge: mental cruelty.
Awarded. To Cass Gilbert, Manhattan architect, by the Society of Arts & Sciences: its 1931 gold medal for architectural achievement; for designing the Woolworth Building (completed 1912), "contributing most conspicuously to the modern movement in architecture."
To Mrs. Anna Hyatt Huntington, sculptress; Willa Gather, novelist; George Arliss, actor; Alwyn Bach, radio announcer--medals from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
Elected. Lee Hastings Bristol of Syracuse, N. Y., vice president of Bristol-Myers Co.; to be president of the Association of National Advertisers (see p. 48); succeeding Bernard Lichtenberg, vice president of the Alexander Hamilton Institute.
Won. By James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney; the suit brought against him by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, promoter, for 25% ($526,812) of Fisticuffer Tunney's earnings, in return for alleged service's of "fixing" politicians, publicity "build ups" et al. (TIME, Nov. 17). Next week Fisticuffer Tunney will defend a similar suit brought by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia "fixer."
Died. Edward Pringle Lowry, 43, second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Mexico City, soldier of fortune in Philippine and World War campaigns, major in the U. S. Army and in the Persian Gendarmery, colonel in the Lithuanian army; of a 40-ft. fall in the patio of the American Club, Mexico City.
Died. Marcus Daly, 48, son and heir of the late great Marcus Daly who founded Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; owner of manganese properties in Virginia, a director of Hedley Gold Mining Co. Ltd.; of a heart attack while duck-hunting near Wachapreague, Va.
Died. Brig.-General Thomas Coleman du Pont, 66, famed Delaware industrialist-financier; of a throat affliction; in Wilmington. Born in Louisville, Ky. of a branch of the family that had moved there from Delaware (his father, Antoine Bidermann, his uncle Alfred Victor du Pont left because "there wasn't room in the powder business at the time for all the family"), he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was an able athlete (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ib. at the age of 19). Beginning as a miner in Kentucky, he rose to be president and manager of several coal, iron & steel companies (among them Johnson Co., which became Lorain Steel Co., now a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp.). Later he developed many street railway lines. Having acquired a large fortune, he went to Wilmington, Del. intending to retire at the age of 37. With his cousins Pierre Samuel and Alfred I. du Pont he reorganized E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co. (explosives). In 1915 he resigned as president, sold his holdings for $14,000,000. In Manhattan he built the Equitable Building (1915), then the world's largest office building; he bought and mutualized Equitable Life Assurance Society. With Lucius Boomer he organized a hotel chain (Manhattan's McAlpen, Waldorf-Astoria, Claridge, Martinique, Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford, Washington's New Willard). In 1916 he was a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination; in 1921 he was appointed U. S. Senator from Delaware by Governor Denny; in 1925 he was elected to the Senate for a six-year term, but retired in 1928 because of his throat. From 1908 to 1930 he was on the Republican National Committee.
Died. Dr. Ebenezer Johnson Foster, 83, adopted at the age of 41 by Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science founder; in Waterbury, Center, Vt, where he was the last surviving Civil War veteran. Although an able physician he never practiced after taking up Christian Science.
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