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...that wonder worker, he had him brought before him and after he had tried him, they took him and crucified him according to their ancestral custom...
After which quaint reference by Banker James Speyer to a national custom which it is the Treasury Department's function to enforce, Secretary Andrew Mellon heard his signal services to the country acclaimed, and beheld his likeness, brushed in oils by fashionable Painter Philip de Laszlo (who lately painted President and Mrs. Coolidge), presented to the New York Chamber of Commerce, to hang in company with those of his predecessors-including great Alexander Hamilton, clever Albert Gallatin, honest John Sherman. Mr. Speyer spoke in Manhattan, in behalf of 500 Chambermen subscribers to a Mellon portrait fund...
...used to be a custom-it was until 1913-that every year the Vice President gave a party for Congress. Quite a reception it was, the invited including 96 Senators, 435 Congressmen, Cabinet members and Justices of the Supreme Court, Army and Navy officers of high degree, a few hundred diplomats-a crush. But the modest Marshalls and the retiring Coolidges gave up the demonstration. This year the Daweses, with a large house and plenty of money, decided to resume it. In fact it is to take place very soon...
Taking up again a custom which, until last year had been in existence for several seasons, the University Glee Club will give a concert at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The first concert which the Club gave at the Museum was in 1920, and. except for last year, it has held concerts there every spring...
...second of a series of concerts, given by the Glee Club Tuesday evenings on the stops of Widener Library will be held tonight at 7 o'clock. These Yard Concerts have been given during the spring for the last seven years, and it has been the custom, after the Glee Club has completed its program, for these in the audience to join it on the steps in spring College songs...