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...State-wide Jewish observance of the 150th anniversary of the Constitution in Faneuil Hall this Sunday, Albert Bushnell Hart, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, emeritus, will be among the list of speakers, it was revealed yesterday. Other lecturers include Roger W. Straus, Governor Hurley, Mayor Tobin, and Samuel H. Wragg, president of the State senate...
...relics as his "mourner's bench" and his wife Sarah's reputed corset. Last week in the dining hall adjoining these holy spots, Negroes sang hymns, ate ice cream & cake at a "Grand Educational and Sesquicentennial Concert and Social." The African Methodist Episcopal Church was celebrating the 150th anniversary of its existence, which it dates from the time that Richard Allen left the white Methodist Church...
...stage set at the base of the floodlighted Washington Monument, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week addressed 65,000 listeners massed on the slick green lawns of Washington's Sylvan Theatre. Occasion of the speech was the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the U. S. Constitution by 38 delegates in Philadelphia. Having made the Constitution the most controversial U. S. political subject of the year, the President took the opportunity to define his views on it, emphasize the familiar theme that in the past four years the Supreme Court has obstructed the will of the U. S. electorate...
...reviewing Marshall's History of the Colonies for the North American Review, the autobiographical sketch discovered five years ago,* shed little new light on its author's life. But the letter, written when the Constitution was 40 years old voiced sentiments interesting on the Constitution's 150th birthday: "I begin to doubt whether it will be long practicable peaceably to elect a Chief Magistrate possessing the powers which the Constitution confers on the President of the United States. ... I begin to fear that our Constitution is not doomed to be so long lived as its real friends...
...military" quantities; a bill authorizing $2,760,000 to be appropriated for restoring U. S. wildlife (see p. 48); a bill providing $2,000,000 to purchase reindeer herds for Alaskan Eskimos and Indians. He also issued an order to all Federal employes to celebrate Sept. 17, the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, as a half holiday...