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...Congratulated the A.S.P.C.A. on its 75th anniversary during "Be Kind to Animals Week...
Birthdays. Jean Sibelius, great Finnish composer, his 75th. Field Marshal August von Mackensen, German hero of World War I, his gist. William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, denouncing those who would have America "become a sort of tail end of a foreign empire," his Sist. Tom Mooney, labor saint, his 58th, at St. Luke's hospital, San Francisco, where in ten months he has undergone three abdominal operations, four transfusions. William Constant Wheeler, the nation's only authentic son of the Revolution, at his South Woodbury, Vt. farmhouse, his 93rd. His father, who volunteered under Washington...
This is the 75th year of the Peabody Museum, which was established in 1866, one of the first anthropological museums in America. Since its founding the Museum has sent out or participated in nearly 500 expeditions and field researches in every part of the world. Its best known collections present the artistic and industrial achievements of the Americas but the primitive people of Asia, the Pacific islands and of Africa are comprehensively represented...
...celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Riachuelo, great Brazilian naval victory over Paraguay, tubby little Getulio Vargas went aboard a warship in Rio de Janeiro harbor, and, after wining well, got up to address the assembled officers. It was the day after President Roosevelt's Charlottesville speech and President Getulio first paid his respects to hemisphere solidarity. "We are united by ties of strict solidarity with all American countries around the ideas, aspirations and common interest in our defense," said...
Vassar women have at various times been called irreverent, intellectual, rich, mannish, able, unpractical, snobbish, radical, dowdy, fast. But this week Matthew Vassar could have read a reassuring report on how Vassar women turn out in the long run. In celebration of its 75th anniversary, the college published a book (Vassar Women-$2.50) giving an account of itself and its graduates...