Word: 52nd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Veiled Prophet. In St. Louis last week, red, orange & blue buntings draped six miles of streets. Nineteen ornate floats passed through depicting "The Romance of Trade & Industry." In the most ornate of all sat the 52nd Veiled Prophet with his queen. Led by a platoon of mounted police the parade moved slowly, impressively, lit by the flare of torches. Next night in St. Louis' Coliseum the Veiled Prophet crowned Miss Ann Chittenden Ferris Queen of Love & Beauty. She is the daughter of President Henry T. Ferris of National Bank Co. of St. Louis. To her was given St. Louis' highest...
Director Grace Abbott's militancy made her almost forget her 52nd birthday last week. She was irate because she learned almost at the last minute that a committee of the conference, a committee which Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service headed and to which she belonged, was prepared to recommend that child hygiene, maternity and infancy work of her Children's Bureau be transferred to the Public Health Service...
...proud and happy day was it for Mrs. Mathilda Burling, 55, of Richmond Hill, N. Y. According to Army records her son, Private George B. Burling Jr., of the 52nd Coast Artillery, died of disease in France, is buried at St. Mihiel Cemetery. Alert, energetic Mrs. Burling long ago conceived the idea of having the Government send mothers who lost their sons in France on a pilgrimage to their graves. She organized the Gold Star Association (now disbanded) to promote this scheme. Five years ago she appeared in Washington, got New York Congressmen to introduce her bill for the trip...