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...made friends outside the church as well as in. He led a picket line of 10,000 to protest the firing of six Negro doctors at Harlem Hospital, led strikes against landlords who charged Harlem's high rents. He established a committee which has picketed 125th Street stores refusing jobs to Negroes, boasts now that his committee has increased Harlem's annual income...
Asserting he is the son of James Monroe, fifth President of the U. S., and that he passed his 125th birthday last Fourth of July, bewhiskered, squinting, eccentric "Major" Edward James Monroe of Jacksonville, Fla. came forward at a 50th annual convention of Confederate veterans in Washington to claim: "The Japanese Government gave my father . . . jewels. The last I knew they were all locked up in the Treasury. I should have them-great boxes of diamonds, but I don't know. Nobody turned them over to me. Crooks in high office. It's a disgrace...
...Hitler through their mutual friend, Dictator Franco of Spain whom Pétain had once taught the art of war, Adolf Hitler's reply was: drop your arms or be killed. He sent for Benito Mussolini to meet him in Munich to discuss matters on June 18 (125th anniversary of Napoleon's downfall at Waterloo). Surrender, not with honor but unconditional, was reported to be the German's ultimatum to France. Meantime, the war "for which France asked" would continue...
...Breasting slowly up the Patapsco River came a Coast Guard picket boat, opened fire with its single small forward gun as cannon from the fort returned rounds of blanks. At battle's end the flag on the fort still waved proudly. Thus re-enacted last week on its 125th anniversary was the episode which inspired Lawyer Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner...
Twenty years ago Max Salop and two brothers, Morris and Abraham, were in the retail shoe business. Then Max went into second-hand books, started the Harlem Book Co. as a retail bookstore on Manhattan's 125th Street. When Depression hit, he waved ready cash under publishers' long faces, cornered the market in publishing's distress merchandise. Today he owns several bargain bookshops, a reprint house which publishes under half-a-dozen aliases. Not even Salop himself knows how many books he sells a year...