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...South Lawn, Having listened to the biggest professional farmer in the land, in the afternoon the convention had a talk from the biggest amateur farmer in the land. Standing on the south lawn of the White House, where Washington moppets traditionally roll Easter eggs, they heard Secretary Wallace introduce from the South Portico "the heart of America"-Franklin D. Roosevelt. When the joyous roaring ceased, the President complimented his audience on being "a pretty good-looking crowd" and, motioning behind him at members of the House Agriculture Committee, remarked that he had "a few members of Congress in captivity with...
...Hambro's suggestion a team of 35 "life-changers" arrived in Norway last October, among them well-beloved Bishop Logan Herbert Roots of Hankow, spending a year of Group travel by special permission of the U. S. Episcopal House of Bishops. By the time it reached Copenhagen last Easter, the team had grown to 250, including the Bishop of Finland and many a Scandinavian socialite. The combined weight of big names, the Groups' persuasive message and a good Press left Bergen, Olso and many a smaller town breathless. Said Tidens Tegn: "The mental outlook of the whole country...
...have been obliged to reprint from the Journal day by day without sound knowledge of the story's source or its outcome. One editor explained: ''Following the Journal on a story like that is like following a good-looking streetwalker along Fifth Avenue at noon on Easter Sunday...
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...Easter Sunday marked the 160th Lindsborg Messiah. Still singing fervently with the sopranos was Alma Swensson, 76, who with her late husband founded the Lindsborg festivals 54 years ago. Alma Swensson was 22 when she sent East for copies of Messiah, corralled a few eager pupils and taught them the great oratorio measure by measure. When her festivals were 27 years old the great Lillian Nordica was a soloist and in Lindsborg that occasion has become legendary. The enchanted choristers pulled her carriage through the streets, received in return roses from her bouquet. One youth planted his bloom...