Word: boston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Segreto;" Bach, "Jesu, Who Didst Ever Guide Me;" Bach, "The Lamb That Was Slain For Us;" Paine, choruses from "The Birds" of Aristophanes; Dvorak, arrangements of two Czechoslovakian folksongs; and Sullivan, Choruses from "Iolanthe." The concert will be broadcast internationally by the non-commercial short wave station W1XAL, of Boston, on 6.04 and 11.73 megacycles...
...Boston, Mass...
...Secretary of State Hull's ablest agents, a Boston Yankee who has been able to push the pushy Japanese around, sailed homeward from Tokyo last week. He is Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, going home for a vacation and a course in the more or less continuous seminar for Ambassadors conducted by Franklin Roosevelt...
Joseph Grew was born in 1880 of a line of Boston bankers, was predestined to be one himself.* From his doting father he wangled a post-collegiate trip abroad, succumbed to "the vivid colors and majestic smells and big gun shooting" in the East He also caught a fever in the Malay States, lost his hearing in one ear and while he was ill in India met a helpful U. S. consul. Then & there he determined to be a diplomat. He flunked his first examination, but managed to get a clerkship in Cairo. In 1904, his star began to rise...
...posthumous claimants was Francis Bellamy, who, in 1892, was an editorial employe of the Youth's Companion in Boston. Mr. Bellamy unquestionably did a job of propaganda to revive patriotic fervor and incidentally stimulated the thriving circulation of the Companion (then in its heyday: circulation around 488,000). To the day of his death in 1931 (aged 75), Francis Bellamy insisted that he wrote The Pledge...