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Married. John Davison Rockefeller III, 26, Princeton graduate, by occupation "associated with father''; and Blanchette Ferry Hooker, 23. Vassar graduate, youngest daughter of Elon Huntington Hooker, financier, engineer, electrochemist; in Manhattan. In the Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, the world's No. 1 nonroyal heir, tall and saturnine, took a Rockefeller-worthy bride, tall, handsome, healthy. Aloft, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller (grandmother) carillon pealed its world's biggest 72 bells. Outside was a mob with news sense, pleased because the bride smiled at large as she walked into the church. Inside were 2,500 Rockefeller & Hooker friends, socialites, bankers...
...Davison '3b, A.J. DeVito '33, R.B. Doretous '35, J. B. Duffy, Jr. '35, Samuel Duker '33, William Dworetaky '33, L.K. Emerson '33, Barney Feldman '34, J.L. Pinan '33, N.S. Foley '34, F.G. Folger '33, Maurice Franks '35, R.M. Gallagher '34, L.E. Gatto '34, Henry Gemner '33, Leo Goldberg '34, Henry Greenberg '33, J.V. Ballett '35, A.M. Halpern '33, J.C. Harris E.G.L. Haskins '35, J.D. Hersey '33, J.J. Hession '35, E.H. Hickey '35, J.W. Higgins, Jr. '33, E.C. Hodson '35, M.L. Hoffman '35, Samuel Horwitz '33, T.H. Hunter '35, E.S. Hurwitt '33, Alvan Hyde...
...piqued not to find a favorite bit of Lassus included in the collection of reproductions. But considering that the number of Lassus's compositions has been estimated at 1250 and upwards, possible oversights of this kind can be accounted for. Beyond the covers of the book Dr. Davison provides Harvard readers with many interpretations of the motets of the period, and of plainsong of still earlier times, since much of the music used in the Memorial Church has been gleaned from this formulative period in the history of choral music...
...millions of votes that have been cast for him constitute not only a marvelous tribute to him but approval of his policies. . . . "Millions have hoped that a political change would better their economic condition. This vote has outnumbered the votes of those who did understand." Republican Trubee Davison, defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York: "Well, I guess that's over the dam." In Chicago, Socialist Norman Thomas with no electoral votes but a popular vote expected to total perhaps 2,000,000: "Governor Roosevelt may find the mass protest vote more of a boon in getting him elected...
...then besought Waterman's London branch to stem the flood of letters. Most signatures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps. Revealed as refusers-to-sign were: George V, Paul von Hindenburg, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, John Davison Rockfeller Sr., Al Capone. Most reluctant (one each) were: Henry Ford, Greta Garbo, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Tom Mooney, Edward of Wales, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, "One-Eye" Connelly, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Most obliging: Calvin Coolidge, Rudy Vall...