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...Sept. 25). Already in place on two walls of the Synagog were ten large murals depicting the Ten Commandments. They were painted in true fresco by A. (for Alexander) Raymond Katz, 40, a Hungarian-born Jew who leads a Jewish art movement in the U. S. with the Hebrew alphabet as its central motif...
...from their testimony: Herron (admitting he had taken names from the city directory): "I was pretty well acquainted and knew pretty much who was for and who was against the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill." Senator Schwellenbach: "How did it happen your acquaintances were limited to the first letters of the alphabet?" Herron (admitting he had mentioned using a "barrel of kerosene"): "I was just joking, of course. Just like you might say you were going to burn your house to keep from paying taxes." O'Brien (asked whether he had destroyed all his papers on the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill...
...hundred and seventy typewriters subject the alphabet to every conceivable humiliation in attempts to show President Conant that their owners will be scholars by 40. Scholarship, research, productive scholarship--these terms have undermined Harvard indifference to a larger extent than the Revolution, the Civil War, or the National Student League...
...Flinders Petric, British archacologist, visited the temple and the mines and found proto-Sinattic inscriptions in an unknown script, apparently a Semitic alphabet derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, of great interest to philologists. Harvard expeditions in 1927 and 1930 visited Serabit and carried forward Petrie's investigations of the temple and mines, but no excavation of the temple was attempted...
...White House china was not yet ready, but the old White House wine glasses were polished up and brought out for the first time since before Prohibition. Two kinds of light domestic wine were served. The occasion was the Cabinet Dinner but this year it became the Cabinet & Alphabet dinner and the State Department's division of protocol made social history by deciding what New Deal agencies sat above other New Deal agencies in the realm of political politeness...