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...President cabled birthday greetings to His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Yoshihito, 123rd sublime ruler of Japan, on his 47th birthday...
...beacon on Lake Michigan. Last week, at the Electrical and Industrial Exposition in Manhattan, Army engineers demonstrated the two-billion-candle-power searchlight he had made them (TIME, March 30, 1925), by which a man 40 miles away can see to read a newspaper. Coincidentally, it was also the 47th anniversary of Thomas Alva Edison's perfection of a 16-candle-power electric lamp...
...dine in a body at the biggest hotel. When the train moved on, games of double canfield began again; diaries were brought up to date, magazines were fished out, idle moments were devoted to picturing in advance the wonders of Seattle, where all were going; the excitement of the 47th Annual Convention of the American Library Asociation, which all would attend; the further grandeurs and marvels of Alaska, whither 250 of the more adventurous librarians would journey after the convention...
...move into a larger location at Fulton and Dutch Sts., where it has remained for the past 70 years. Now continued expansion has again compelled a move, and this time the firm's executive offices and departments of its Manhattan branch will shift several miles uptown to West 47th St. near Fifth Avenue...
...Pittsburgh, Secretary of Labor Davis addressed the 47th Annual Convention of the Amalgamated Association of Steel, Iron and Tin Workers. He recalled his 35-year membership, hailed the new day of cooperation between employer and employe, admonished the workers to "ease up on such strict rules" as charging the employer a full day's wage for a one-hour...