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...fact that Easter came in April this year instead of in March still affects the clothing business, according to Cole, although not nearly as much as it did several years ago when everyone felt that he had to have a new suit of clothes for this great occasion. To be sure, business in Boston suffered a nine percent loss in March, and a 12 percent gain in April, but at the Coop the differences were not noticeable...
During the Easter holidays two debating teams argued the council's plan for the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment several times, meeting with varied success. In every case, however, the vote was very close, generally fending to be against the plan...
Each name was a pledge by the juvenile signer: "I will fight the observance of Easter in my home...
...front cover) While Yaqui Indians performed their vernal rites in desert Arizona, and Christians the world over celebrated Easter Sunday (with fire from heaven at Jerusalem), Spring came to the people who follow music in Philadelphia and Manhattan and set them to discussing a musical event-of-the-year: the stage presentation, first in Philadelphia, then in Manhattan, of the most controversial composition; of the age, Igor Stravinsky's savage Sacre du Printemps (" Rite of Spring" ). Executors of the event were the League of Composers, prime promoters of modern music, and Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Boleslaw Stokowski who, with...
...Canton, Ohio, John Routz, 11, disputed the ownership of a chocolate Easter rabbit with Charles Christeen. After brawling in the street, Master Routz followed Master Christeen to his home, forced open he door, was shot dead by his adversary...