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...curb eater-corner from J. P. Morgan & Co. Once a year Wall Street's echoes are purged of Redness by a voice whose patriotism is matched only by its volume-the voice of one Roberta Keene Tubman, leading America's Good-Will Union* in "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the steps of the Sub-Treasury where George Washington took his inaugural oath April 30, 146 years...
...dedicating German youths to some other God than the sire of Christ, zealots of the Ludendorffist German Faith movement celebrated Easter with vague but impassioned rites. At Hamburg, Leipzig and in the Rhineland, bands of German boys and girls stepped out briskly under what was called "the blue banner of the German Faith, with its golden sunwheel, the Viking flag of the revolution of the German soul...
Brooks 5, Dunster 2. Reynolds and Shapiro (B) defeated Short and Beffie (D), 6-4, 6-2; Mazer (B) defeated Humstone (E), 6-1, 6-2; Elkin (B) defeated Banner (E), 6-1, 6-0; Greenblatt (B) defeated Cummings (E), 6-4, 6-2; Quinn (D) defeated Homonoff (B), 9-7, 8-6; Josef (D) defeated Skinner...
...price of $225,000 to the Washington Senators for Shortstop and Manager Joe Cronin. These doings, on top of revived interest caused by the exciting end of the 1934 season and the appearance of a new star to take Babe Ruth's place, will either make 1935 a banner year or indicate that baseball as a U. S. industry is incorrigibly profitless...
...wound up the White House social season, President & Mrs. Roosevelt had as their dinner guests Dr. & Mrs. Walter N. Thayer. Good friend of the Roosevelts, Dr. Thayer is New York State Commissioner of Correction. Another guest was Geoffrey O'Hara, who owns a copyright to "The Star-Spangled Banner" by virtue of having transposed it to a lower key and who wrote the War song "K-K-K-Katy." After dinner the President listened appreciatively while Singer McGregor McKnight rendered a number with music by Composer O'Hara, lyrics by Dr. Thayer and dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt...