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...front yard of the White House President Hoover planted a small elm tree as part of the American Tree Association's program to plant ten million saplings to commemorate George Washington's bicentennial next year. Remarked the President: "Perhaps I should have planted a cherry tree to take the place of the one chopped down by George Washington years...
...meretricious medievalsm and stale iconography" of the ornament on the library cannot perhaps be justified, but it hardly "monumentalizes the vulgarity of the American educator's mind." If the lighting and ventilating systems cost more than windows, at least the mighty walls shut out some of the din of Elm Street. If steel girders can be used to advantage in supporting stone, "architectural falsity" need not prevent it. And there are probably many who would welcome the conversion of more telephone booths into fourteenth century confessionals...
...Golfers George Von Elm and Leo Diegel: a match against Mortie Dutra and Robert Tyre Jones Jr.; at Agua Caliente, Mexico. Golfer Jones is now performing in Warner Bros, golf talkies. Current rumor about what Jones will do next summer: tour the U. S. in exhibition matches, sponsored by Warner Bros., starting at the Winchester Country Club near Boston with Francis Ouimet as partner...
Burgoyne's army in Cambridge, the Washington Elm, the Vassall House, and the Loyalists, form the themes of these vigorous and informative essays...
...landed in England. It had made it seem appropriate for a swarm of disabled War veterans to join in and freshen up New York's rather overdone greeting ceremony and for Boston, on the occasion of its tercentenary, to give him a "Constitutional Big Stick" cut from an elm on Lexington Battlefield and to call him one of the three foremost defenders and upholders of Liberty and the Constitution (TIME, Sept. 29). It had furnished him a text for a national radio speech on the sanctity of the U. S. passport and had given his newshawks a standing heckle-question...