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...pastor of Peoples Church." Spokesman for Jewry was popular Rabbi Mann, who rejoiced that Adolf Hitler declined to allow Preston Bradley in Germany last year. Prayed Rabbi Mann, in Hebrew: "May you go on, dear Preston, from strength to strength. May your dust continue to serve even unto your 100th year...
...didn't I, Bud?" sighed he, facing the boy in court again. "How fair have you been to me? When you think that over and learn the answer you'll have learned much about life. That's all now. I'm through." On his 100th birthday anniversary the City of Buffalo, N. Y. accepted a bust of Grover Cleveland which had been rejected 52 years ago because the sculptor had left off one of the coat buttons...
...paintings by the late Christian Jorgensen. the Norwegian-born artist largely responsible for the acquisition of Yosemite Valley as a National Park (TIME. Dec. 28). This week Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries opened an exhibition of 14 large landscapes, the first of a series of shows honoring the 100th Anniversary of a far better painter, directly responsible for the entire program of U. S. national parks: Thomas Moran...
...Majesty at once set to work signing messages of congratulation to British near-centenarians which will be delivered on the 100th birthday of each. His Majesty commanded that his own 41st birthday this week be not celebrated or observed. He commanded that he shall be crowned May 12, 1937, the day on which the Duke of Windsor was to have been crowned. The 300 Privy Councilors were asked by all their intimates one question: "Does he still stutter?" No Privy Councilor could be found willing to be quoted as saying that His Majesty does not still stutter...
...back to France without the interest of Historian Edouard de Laboulaye, grandfather of the present French Ambassador to Washington. With the backing of Historian de Laboulaye and other prominent Frenchmen, francs were raised by popular subscription among French citizens to present the statue to the U. S. on its 100th Anniversary, the Philadelphia Exposition...