Monday, Dec. 05, 1927
Married. David Aiken Reed Jr., 24, son of U. S. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, to Nancy Bell Ross, onetime wife of Elmer W. Ross, St. Louis public accountant, and mother of a six-year-old; secretly in St. Louis, a month ago. Last week they left for Santiago, Chile, where he is employed. Said Senator Reed to reporters who suggested that he had disinherited Reed Jr.; "A pack of fairy tales!"
Married. Miss Mary Patricia Tumulty, daughter of Joseph Patrick Tumulty, onetime (1913-21) Secretary to the late President Woodrow Wilson; to Robert Francis Cahill, U. S. N.; in Washington.
Married. Miss Ann Woodruff Stetson, daughter of Mrs. G. Henry Stetson, onetime (1926) national Women's Golf Champion, and granddaughter of the late John Batter son Stetson (hats) and niece of John Batterson Stetson Jr., U. S. Minister to Poland since 1925; to Paul Norris, 19, Philadelphia scion, following an elopement to Chestertown, Md.
Elected. William Hartman Woodin, 54, to the presidency of the American Locomotive Co.; to succeed the late Frederick F. Fitzpatrick. He was the company's president for five months in 1926; has been its chairman since 1926; is also chairman of the American Car & Foundry Co.; is a director of General Motors Corporation and of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Died. Michael Moscicki, 27, chemical engineer, son of President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland; of typhoid fever; at Tarnow, Poland.
Died. Lady Victoria Bullock, daughter of Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, onetime (1918-20) British Ambassador to France; following a hunting accident in which her skull was fractured when she attempted to ride under a low bridge; near Leicester.
Died. Pierre Peugeot, 58, French automobile manufacturer, president of the board of the Societe Anonyme des Automobiles Peugeot, Mayor of Herimoncourt; stricken suddenly in Paris.
Died. Giovanni Cardinal Bonzano, 60, onetime (1912-22) Apostolic Delegate from Rome to the U. S.; in Rome; after an operation a fortnight ago. He it was who as liason official arranged for an exchange of letters between Piux X (who sought to end the World War) and the late President Woodrow Wilson.
Died. Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, 60, suddenly, of heart trouble, at Washington, D. C. Died. Jon Bratiano, 63, powerful Premier and "iron man" of Rumania, four times (1908-10, 1912-18, 1922-26, July-November 1927) Prime Minister, foe of the exiled onetime Crown Prince Carol; in Bucharest; after three operations had been performed upon his throat.
Died. Sir Robert Arundell Hudson, secretary of the (British) Liberal Central Association for 32 years, architectural expert and engineer. Twice married, his second wife was the widow of the late Lord Northcliffe, famed British editor & publisher, who died in 1922. Just before his death, it is rumored, Lord Northcliffe instructed his wife that, in case she remarried, his preference would be that she marry his intimate friend Sir Robert Arundell Hudson. This she did within a year.
Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Fletcher Dole, 82, father of Pacific air race sponsor, James Drummond Dole (TIME, Aug. 22, et seq.); at Boston, Mass. While his son grew rich farming good Hawaiian pineapples, the Rev. Dr. Dole penned improving tracts: Early Hebrew Stories, Noble Womanhood, Jesus and the Men about Him, The Religion of a Gentleman, My 80 Years (1927).
Died. Robert Cluett, 83, one of the founders (1901) and later (1902-07) president of Cluett, Peabody & Co. of Troy, N. Y. (Arrow collars & shirts); of heart disease; at his home in Hubbard Woods, Chicago suburb.