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...Building. He arrived wearing a sky-blue necktie. Seven hundred people called to wish him well. Alfred Emanuel Smith dropped in. Commissioner Voorhis gave him a cigar marked "John R. Voorhis." To other guests went other presents: To the men, pencils, to the women, fans, all marked in gilt: "1829??? JOHN R. VOORHIS?1929." There was a birthday cake, two poems, 100 roses from Pompton Plains. Commissioner Voorhis was elected a member of the young Democrats club. For the first time in his life he cried in public. Police Commissioner Whalen joshed him because the police department had no Voorhis...
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