Milestones, Mar. 30, 1931

Appointed. Robert Tyre Jones Jr., retired golf champion of the world; to be a captain in the organized reserve of the U. S. Army for "special and miscellaneous duty"; by President Hoover.

Awarded. Jointly to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon on his 76th birthday (Mar. 24) and his brother Banker Richard Beatty Mellon within his 73rd birthday week (Mar. 19) : the medal of the American Institute of Chemists; for establishing and maintaining the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh and for helping create...

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