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...years handsome. 73-year-old Sir Stephen Henry Molyneux Killik. London Alderman, stockbroker, author and Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers, has known that last week he would either be dead or Lord Mayor-elect of that square mile of London called "The City." By venerable tradition the Senior Alderman must be elected Lord Mayor, provided he has served one year as Sheriff of London...
...first speaker of the evening will be George Gore '34, who will give the "Address to the Graduating Class," originally delivered by Edward A. Alderman. He will be followed by Richard P. Wheeler ocC, who is to give "The British Character", by George Santayana '86. Next, selections from Edmund Burke's "Conciliation with the American Colonies" are to be presented by Leonard C. Lewin '36. The subject of the address of John W. Yungblut '35 is "The Secret of Bishop Lawrence's Wisdom," by President Lowell...
...honor the President's mother, Manhattan Alderman Michael Pelligrino submitted a resolution to name a thorough fare in his district "Anna D. Roosevelt Parkway." Informed that the name of the President's mother was Sara Delano Roosevelt he amended the resolution. Aldermanic President Deutsch countered with a resolution to name the thorough fare for onetime Park Commissioner Charles B. Stover. Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt telegraphed declining the honor, telegraphed again endorsing the name of Parkman Stover. The Aldermen passed the Pelligrino resolution, named the thoroughfare "Sara Delano Roosevelt Park...
...issues of the second U. S. Negro daily newspaper,* the Daily Citizen, published and edited by bald, brown William M. Kelley, onetime editor of the weekly Amsterdam News. Publisher Kelley got his paper started by selling stock at $5 a share to Harlem notables like Bishop R. C. Lawson, Alderman John W. Smith, Mortician Rodney Dade; white politicians like Tammany District Leader Thomas F. Murray; and to ordinary residents of Harlem reached by door to door canvass. In appearance, the tabloid Citizen looks like a compromise between the dignified Evening Post and the blatant Daily Mirror. Last week...
...University of Virginia had been without a full president for nearly two and one-half years, alumni, faculty and students lately began prodding the Board of Visitors to appoint one. Most of them urged the name of Dr. John Lloyd Newcomb who had assisted the late Dr. Edwin Anderson Alderman since 1926 and who became acting president upon his death (TIME, May 11, 1931). To arguments that Virginia should get a nationally-known president they replied that Harvard with James Bryant Conant and Princeton with Harold Willis Dodds had taken comparatively little-known men from their own ranks. Last week...