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Thus last week, did the 31st President of the U. S. speak of the first President of the U. S. The occasion was the 200th Anniversary of George Washington's birth. Inaugurated was a nine-month patriotic celebration. At noon President Hoover addressed a joint session of Congress, attended by his Cabinet and the diplomatic corps. After his speech he appeared at the east front of the Capitol and heard 12,000 people sing "America" under the direction of Walter Damrosch and John Philip Sousa. After lunch the President motored to Alexandria, Va. to review a parade which included...
...Budapest and Berlin, streets were renamed for George Washington. In Kobe, Osaka and Kyoto cherry trees were planted in his honor. At Paris, Naples and Sofia there were public receptions. President von Hindenburg of Germany felicitated President Hoover. Throughout the U. S. there was much patriotic ado. Reason: the 200th anniversary of his birth...
...President Hoover set aside by proclamation the period between Feb. 22 and Thanksgiving Day as a time for celebrating the 200th Anniversary of George Washington's birth (see p. 29). ¶ The President signed the $126.000.000 first deficiency bill...
...celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington will be held at Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, at 11 o'clock on Washington's Birthday. Dr. A. T. Davison '06 will lead 30 members of the Glee Club in songs of the American Revolution, and Professor Morison will speak on "The Young Man Washington," Mayer Russell will introduce Dean Murdock, who will preside...
...look at the 31st U. S. President, an enthusiastic crowd of 2,500 swarmed into Washington's central post office to buy likenesses of the first U. S. President. By nightfall over 40,000 philatelists from far and near had secured more than a million stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth. First in line were Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and Representative Sol Bloom of New York, members of the Washington Bicentennial Commission, which plans elaborate celebrations throughout 1932. After they were served, 25 clerks were kept busy distributing the new series of twelve Washington...